PM will take part in stoppage by women and non-binary people calling for pay equality and action on gender-based violence

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.

  • DessertStorms@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    market inefficiency

    Don’t get me wrong - people doing this kind of research and building up the data to prove the reality is a good thing, but the absurdity of turning to capitalism to resolve patriarchy is just much…

    It’s like the flip side of class reductionism - “only war is the gender war” - hey capitalists, look at this untapped resource, if you just exploit women 13% less, you can make all this extra profit!

    And while I completely support this strike, I wish they too would look at the bigger picture.

    The reality is that all these systems (capitalism and classism, sexism, racism, ableism, queerphobia, and so on) are interconnected and inseparable, they serve each other in many ways, and must all be abolished for us to have anything resembling a just society.