Icelandic Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir attends a press conference with then German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured). Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa
Women across Iceland stopped work and staged an all-day strike on Tuesday, the first protest of its kind on the island in nearly a half-century. Tens of thousands of Icelandic women gathered in the capital Reykjavik for a large rally. The strike, which was held under the slogan "Do you call this equality?," caused widespread disruptions to public life, with kindergartens, schools, banks and other institutions forced to shut their doors. Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, 47, had also said she would take part. The fight for equality is progressing too slowly, the prime minister said in an inte...
