For those interested, this year's Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to economic historian Claudia Goldin at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”.

Goldin mined 200 years of data to show that greater economic growth did not lead to wage parity, nor to more women in the workplace.

Goldin’s work has helped to explain why women have been under-represented in the labour market for at least the past two centuries, and why even today they continue to earn less than men on average (by around 13%, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development).

Although such inequalities are widely recognized, they present a puzzle for economic models because they represent not just a potential injustice, but also what economists call a market inefficiency. Women seem to be both under-utilized and under-incentivized in the labour force, even though those in high-income countries typically now have a higher educational level than do men.

Full transparency would be good. No one should fear to disclose how much they make. The boomer Maxim of 'it's nobodies business how much I make' is a bit of a false modesty.

If you earn to little, wouldn't you like to know, and if you feel like you eraan to much, you probably do.

The first one 48 years ago : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Icelandic_women's_strike

On 24 October 1975, Icelandic women went on strike for the day to "demonstrate the indispensable work of women for Iceland’s economy and society" and to "protest wage discrepancy and unfair employment practices". It was then publicized domestically as Women's Day Off (Kvennafrídagurinn). Participants, led by women's organizations, did not go to their paid jobs and did not do any housework or child-rearing for the whole day. Ninety percent of Iceland's female population participated in the strike. Iceland's parliament passed a law guaranteeing equal pay the following year.

It has apparently become necessary to do it a second time…

Asking from third world countries, there is a gap between genders?

I wish the UK would do something like this, and they have it worse than the Icelanders.

Heck, I wish they'd get up off their ass about anything. The UK railway strikers had the right idea, no idea why it's limited to them.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Tens of thousands of women and non-binary people across Iceland, including the prime minister, are expected to stop work – both paid and unpaid – on Tuesday in the first strike of its kind in nearly half a century.

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.

Despite being considered a global leader on gender equality, topping the 2023 World Economic Forum’s global gender gap rankings for the 14th consecutive year, in some professions Icelandic women still earn 21% less than men, and more than 40% of women have experienced gender-based or sexual violence.

Women and non-binary people across the country are urged not to do any paid or unpaid work on Tuesday, including domestic tasks at home, “to demonstrate the importance of their contribution to society”.

The strike is calling for the gender pay gap to be closed by publishing the wages of workers in female-dominant professions, and for action against gender-based and sexual violence, with more focus on the perpetrators.

Despite the #MeToo movement and various others demanding equality in Iceland over recent years, she said women could not count on the justice system when it came to sexually violent crimes.

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The Gender Equality Index conference

24 OCT 2023 -10:30-13:00 CEST - ONLINE

All events of the series on Gender Equality and the European Green Deal will be live-streamed on EIGE's website and YouTube channel. The language of all events of the series is English with an interpretation to international sign language. Viewers will have the possibility to ask questions via the Slido platform. By registering you will sign up to receive updates on the event and a link to view the live-stream.