The day women walked out
What would happen if women stopped work? If they refused to go to their jobs in offices, hospitals, cafés, schools, and banks? If they refused to pick up the children, do the washing, cook the dinner, make the bed? What would happen if fifty per cent of the population went on strike?
That scenario was tested just under half a century ago when the women of Iceland, for one day, walked out on their everyday lives. Proposed by the women’s movement the Red Stockings, the 1975 strike was a way to force men to recognise the value of women’s paid and, critically, unpaid labour.
Dubbed “Women’s Day Off”, women from all walks of life - young and old,
