Women walk out in Iceland to strike against the gender pay gap. There’s a lesson for the US

From classrooms to corporate offices to household cleaning, women across Iceland walked away from work − both paid and unpaid − Tuesday to demand improvements to unequal pay and gender-based violence.

“It is a more complex issue in the United States,” said Ann Warner, interim CEO at the International Center for Research on Women. “Gender is one important facet of the pay gap … When we look at the intersection between gender and race, we see those gaps widen even more.”

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