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Jakobsdóttir joins Icelandic women's strike

On 24 October 2023 Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir joined a nationwide women's strike in Iceland, the kvennafrí or women's day off, protesting the gender pay gap and gender-based violence. It was the country's first full-day women's strike since 1975, and about 100,000 people joined it.

Katrín Jakobsdóttir (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 24 October 2023 Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir joined a nationwide women's strike in Iceland, the kvennafrí or women's day off, protesting the gender pay gap and gender-based violence. It was the country's first full-day women's strike since 1975, and about 100,000 people joined it.

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  • Katrín Jakobsdóttir

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  2. 2.bbc.com — sourcebbc.com · verified
  3. 3.theguardian.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: jakobsd+strike · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Jakobsdóttir joins Icelandic women's strike. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/jakobsdottir-joins-womens-strike-2023-10-24

https://factrail.ai/facts/jakobsdottir-joins-womens-strike-2023-10-24

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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