Organisers hope the women’s strike – whose confirmed participants include fishing industry workers, teachers, nurses and the PM, Katrín Jakobsdóttir – will bring society to a standstill to draw attention to the country’s ongoing gender pay gap and widespread gender-based and sexual violence.

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      In large parts it’s because of the choice of employment and losing out on work experience when staying home.

      It should be socially accepted to work what the hell you want. But I don’t see any way to codify a fair gender ratio into law. So this is a really tough nut to crack, because it requires a mind change by all of society.

      Arguing for equal compensation regardless of experience makes no sense. Unfortunately only one parent is equipped with the hardware to make and raise kids. So we need a way to enable more equal distribution of work. But if women are just naturally more inclined to care for kids (which would make a lot of sense from an evolutionary perspective), then this gap will persist unless we force people by law to work or take care of kids more.

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          Yes that is also one aspect.

          I didn’t mention it, because I have no idea how that could even be solved on a large scale. This is a problem that arises from the individual’s ability to negotiate. Unless you work in a unionized job, where salaries are more often clearly defined in a table and negotiated for everyone at once