On the 24th of october in 1975, approximately 90% of Icelandic women struck for equality, not attending jobs or doing any domestic work. Iceland passed an equal pay law the following year, but the strike has been repeated on its anniversary several times since, such as in the years 2005, 2010, and 2016.
The strike was planned by “The Women’s Congress”, which had met on June 20th and 21st earlier that year. Among the reasons given for going on strike were pay inequality, lack of women in union leadership, and a general lack of recognition for the value and skill of domestic labor.
During the work stoppage, also known as “Women’s Day Off”, 25,000 people gathered in Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital city, for a rally. There, women listened to speakers, sang, and talked to each other about what could be done to achieve gender equality in Iceland.
Women from many different backgrounds spoke, including a housewife, two members of parliament, and a worker. The last speech of the day was by Aðalheiður Bjarnfreðsdóttir, who “represented Sókn, the trade union for the lowest paid women in Iceland”, according to The Guardian.
In 1976, the Icelandic government passed an equal pay law, and the country elected its first female President, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, five years later in 1980.
The 1975 Women’s Strike also helped inspire the 2016 “Black Monday” anti-abortion ban protests in Poland, as well as the “International Women’s Strike”, single day work stoppages on March 8th, 2017 and 2018.
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I feel like sci-fi settings tend to forget that planets are, like… very big. A planet can have multiple different biomes. A planet can be occupied by many different factions in different locations. In so many sci-fi stories, you have planets that are basically just one location, you have desert planets, jungle planets, city planets and they never take advantage of the full scale of a planet.
Get this, they recently discovered a planet where there are deserts, jungles and cities! On the same celestial body!
Yeah, this is one of my two minor complaints about No Man’s Sky. Any given planet has one global biome. There’s a ridiculous number of possible planets and biomes but it would be nice to see mutiple biomes on one world.
My other minor complaint is that gravity doesn’t scale on the size of the world, it only seems to have two levels. Earth-normal and Moon-normal. And even that depends solely on whether or not the world has an atmosphere.
But I really have no complaints otherwise. I love the art style. I feel like I’m playing a game where any given frame looks like it belongs on the cover of a classic sci-fi novel.
If you’re gonna have to build a new set anyway might as well call it a new planet