ICELAND’S prime minister was among thousands of women today taking strike action for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence.

Katrin Jakobsdottir said that she would stay home as part of the women’s strike, the “kvennaverkfal,” and expected other women in her Cabinet would do the same.

Iceland’s trade unions called on women and non-binary people to refuse both paid and unpaid work, including household chores, for the day.