Cool People Who Did Cool StuffPart One: The Iceland Women's Strike of 1975: How Iceland Became the Most Gender Equal Country on Earth
Margaret talks with Allison Raskin about the radicals and feminists and radical feminists who got 90% of a country's women to refuse to do work at the jobsite or at home
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https://bluestockings.com/
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/icelandic-women-strike-economic-and-social-equality-1975
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