1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: Bungelung Calcottin woman from Gadighl Country. The Daily oz acknowledges 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torres 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,159 Speaker 1: Strait Island and nations. We pay our respects to the 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: first peoples of these countries, both past and present. 7 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily os. It is Wednesday, 8 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 2: the twenty fifth of October. I'm Billy fitz Simons. 9 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 3: I'm Emma Gillespie. 10 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 2: Today, tens of thousands of women and non binary people 11 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 2: in Iceland are on strike, calling for the gender pay 12 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 2: gap to close and an end to gender based violence. 13 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,599 Speaker 3: Iceland's Prime Minister and other ministers in Iceland's parliament are 14 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 3: among those who've stopped work for a full day now. 15 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 3: Despite Iceland's standing in the global community as being a 16 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 3: leader in gender equity, the women who live there say 17 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 3: there's plenty of work still to be done. 18 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 2: Well, Unparck the strike, what happened and everything you need 19 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 2: to know about Iceland's gender equity movement in the day dive. 20 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 2: But first, Emma, what's making headlines. 21 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 3: Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi will be honored with an official 22 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 3: state dinner at the White House on Thursday morning, Australian time, 23 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 3: as part of his diplomatic visit to Washington. Albanzi will 24 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 3: become the third Australian Prime Minister to receive a state 25 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 3: dinner in the US over the last twenty years, after 26 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 3: John Howard and Scott Morrison. The PM arrived in the 27 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 3: US Capitol on Sunday night for four days of meetings, 28 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 3: where he had said the focus would be on the 29 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 3: orcust defense packed and climate action. 30 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 2: The Federal government will find a three year trial aimed 31 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 2: at reducing the impacts of harmful social media messaging on 32 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 2: young men. It hopes to combat arise in gender stereotyping 33 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 2: spurred on by influential personalities like Andrew Tate. The trial 34 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 2: will focus on boys as young as five and seek 35 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 2: to encourage healthy relationships among men with their female counterparts, 36 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 2: as part of an ongoing push to end violence against 37 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 2: women and children. 38 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 3: A collision involving two trains in Easton, Bangladesh, has killed 39 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 3: seventeen people. A freight train was believed to have collided 40 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 3: into a passenger train crushing two carriages. Several other passengers 41 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 3: were injured. 42 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 2: And today's good news the Matildas are back on Australian 43 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 2: soil for the first time since the World Cup. They 44 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: will play three Olympic qualifying matches in Perth, with their 45 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 2: first against Iran on Thursday night. 46 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 3: Tilli Time, Billy, I want to take you to Iceland today, 47 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 3: where women and non binary people started their work stoppage 48 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 3: yesterday in the name of gender equality. Forty eight years 49 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 3: after the first all day national women's strike. Protesters are 50 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 3: demanding that gender based violence be eliminated and that the 51 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 3: contribution of women and non binary people be acknowledged and 52 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 3: rewarded in Iceland. 53 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 2: I'm excited to talk about this topic because when it 54 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 2: was pitched in yesterday's pitch meeting, it was so interesting 55 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 2: that the Prime Minister was part of this strike. But 56 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 2: before we get into it, Iceland doesn't get a whole 57 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 2: lot of time on this podcast. I can't remember the 58 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 2: last time Simon Zara spoke about it in one of 59 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: their deep dives. So Emma, before we look at the strike, 60 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 2: can you just give us a quick reminder of anything 61 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 2: we need to know about Iceland? 62 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 3: Okay, yep, so rapid fire lesson on Iceland. It's a 63 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 3: European island in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, 64 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 3: just south of the Arctic Circle. What I mean by 65 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 3: that is it's cold. It's a land of extremes really 66 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 3: so think you know, twenty four hours of sunshine in 67 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 3: the peak of summer and really long stretches of dark winters. 68 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 3: It's a pretty small country. We're talking about a population 69 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 3: of less than four hundred thousand people. Its parliament is 70 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 3: forty eight percent women, and the Prime minister, another woman, 71 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 3: is from the left green movement. 72 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 2: I feel like the thing that I do know about 73 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 2: Iceland is that it's quite progressive, which those stats seem 74 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 2: to match with. Have any strikes like this happened before? 75 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 3: So this strike is called the National Women's Strike, and 76 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 3: they've been happening since nineteen seventy five. That was the 77 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 3: first national women's strike, when ninety percent of female Icelandic 78 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 3: workers stopped work for gender equality, and the action became 79 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 3: known as the Women's Day Off. That strike actually led 80 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 3: to an equal pay law being passed in Iceland's parliament, 81 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 3: so it's standing in the countries is quite respected. Twenty 82 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 3: five thousand women protested against income inequality in the eighties, 83 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 3: and then more recently there have been protests in the 84 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 3: form of women leaving work the minute they stopped getting paid. 85 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 3: So this was based off the gender pay gap and 86 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 3: to highlight that difference. So in two thousand and five, 87 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 3: women walked off the job at two eight pm, and 88 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 3: that's happened every few years since as the gap has narrowed. 89 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 3: So the last one was in twenty eighteen. The gender 90 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 3: pay gup adjusted for working hours was sixteen percent in Iceland, 91 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 3: but the gender income gap is much higher. Women left 92 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 3: work in that protest at two point fifty five pm 93 00:04:59,200 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 3: that year. 94 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 2: So those timings of walking off the job at two 95 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 2: eight pm and then later walking off at two fifty 96 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 2: five is that based on business hours? 97 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 3: Yep, that's a really good question. So this protest was 98 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 3: based on the idea that men and women working nine 99 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 3: to five or like a kind of standard eight hour day, 100 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 3: that women only get paid until two fifty five pm. 101 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 3: So for this protest to prove that point, that was 102 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 3: you know, when they finished their. 103 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 2: Day, okay, And so then from what you have said 104 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 2: about this week's action, it's more of a twenty four 105 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 2: hour strike. So how did women in Iceland participate in 106 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 2: this week's action? You know, what did the strike actually involve? 107 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 3: Yep, So, as you mentioned, this was a twenty four 108 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 3: hour strike and women in Iceland haven't taken action of 109 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 3: that extent in decades. So midnight to midnight, and it 110 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 3: was planned by about forty organizations in Iceland who came together, 111 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 3: including one of the country's biggest worker unions, and it 112 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 3: was all about women refusing labor of any kind for 113 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 3: the day, both paid and unpaid. Organizers said that the 114 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 3: timing of it boiled down to systemic wage discrimination that 115 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 3: they say still affects women in Iceland and gender based violence, 116 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 3: which it described as a pandemic that must be eradicated. 117 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 3: Organizers said, we cannot wait any longer for actions, and 118 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 3: that's how this year's strike came about. 119 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 2: You said something just that that's interesting. You said that 120 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 2: there was a ban unpaid and unpaid work. I know, 121 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 2: something that often comes up in these discussions is the 122 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 2: idea of the household mental load and how that disproportionately 123 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 2: impacts women. So women doing more of the cleaning in 124 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 2: the house, doing much more of looking after kids, for example, 125 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 2: what do we know about the element of those protests. 126 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 2: I don't think I've heard about a strike in that 127 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 2: area before. 128 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,599 Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is a really interesting part of the 129 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,679 Speaker 3: organized action. People participating were told not to go to work, 130 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 3: so their jobs, but they were also told to refuse 131 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 3: unpaid work, like you say, to avoid taking on expected 132 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 3: unpaid labor such as childcare, housework, the emotional labor of 133 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 3: delegating tasks, and strike organizers said for this one day, 134 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 3: we expect husbands, fathers, brothers, and uncles to take on 135 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 3: the responsibilities related to family and home, for example, preparing 136 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 3: breakfast and lunchboxes, remembering birthdays of relatives, buying a present 137 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 3: for your mother in law, making a dentist appointment for 138 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 3: your kid, etc. 139 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 2: I'm sure there are a lot of people who are 140 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 2: listening who think that sounds pretty nice. What do we 141 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 2: know about the scale of this strike, how many people 142 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 2: are expected to take part. 143 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 3: So Apart from the labor stoppages, women and non binary 144 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 3: people in Iceland also gathered all around the country to 145 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 3: demonstrate at rallies a few hours ago. The biggest gathering 146 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 3: was organized in the capital of Rekuvic, but in terms 147 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 3: of how widespread the participation was you kind of only 148 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 3: have to look at Iceland's government. This is a near 149 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 3: majority female parliament. They have a female Prime Minister, Katrine 150 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 3: yak Abstrata, and the PM said she'd be doing the strike. 151 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 3: She said she expected many of her colleagues to do 152 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 3: the same. So when you've got, you know, one of 153 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 3: the most prominent people in the country telling you that 154 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 3: she endorses these protests, you've got to think that's a 155 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 3: good enough excuse for many women to join in themselves. 156 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 2: As I said earlier when we were talking about a 157 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 2: really brief overview of Iceland, I had this perception, and 158 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of Australians would have this 159 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 2: perception that Iceland is quite a progressive place when it 160 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 2: comes to gender equality. I mean, you said before in 161 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 2: your overview that forty eight percent of its parliament is women. 162 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 2: So is that not the case that it is quite 163 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 2: progressive when it comes to gender equality. 164 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean absolutely. It does certainly have that global reputation, 165 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 3: and that doesn't come from nothing. It's long been seen 166 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 3: as this country leading the charge when it comes to equality, 167 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 3: and that's reflected you know, the World Economic Forums Global 168 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 3: Gender Gap Index ranked Iceland as the best country in 169 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 3: the world for gender equality this year. That was for 170 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 3: the fourteenth time. But what has become clearer from these 171 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 3: strikes is that nomic disparities do still remain between men 172 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 3: and women in Iceland. You know, even the best place 173 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 3: for gender equity in the world still isn't one hundred 174 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 3: percent equal. In twenty eighteen, Iceland introduced laws requiring businesses 175 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 3: to prove that they were paying men and women equally, 176 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 3: so that has helped with understanding the scope of the issue. 177 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 3: But the PM said Iceland hasn't reached its goals for 178 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 3: full gender equality, and she said we are still tackling 179 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 3: the gender based wage gap, which is unacceptable in twenty 180 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 3: twenty three, so what do we know about the wage 181 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 3: gap in Iceland? Then, interestingly, as you kind of pointed out, 182 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 3: one of the strike organizers and union leaders actually told 183 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 3: The Guardian that Iceland is talked about like it's an 184 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 3: equality paradise. But she said an equality paradise should not 185 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 3: have a twenty one percent wage gap and forty percent 186 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:58,559 Speaker 3: of women experiencing gender based or sexual violence in their lifetime. 187 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 3: Iceland's ranking as this global leader in gender equity, you know, 188 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 3: it's based on a combination of factors, so not just 189 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 3: the pay gap, not just wage equality, but also workforce participation, 190 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 3: education rates, representation in parliament. It's number one on all 191 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 3: of those things, but that doesn't mean it's ranked highest 192 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 3: in every category. So, for example, it's fifth in the 193 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 3: world for wage equality for similar work. 194 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 2: Just quickly, you're talking about this has made me interested. 195 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:26,679 Speaker 2: Do you know where Australia ranks? 196 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 3: Okay, I looked this up because I had a feeling. 197 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 3: I'm often great minds. I'm often prepping thinking what would 198 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 3: Billy do? What would Billy say? And I wondered if 199 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 3: you would so, Billy, I'm happy or not that happy 200 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 3: to tell you we're a little bit further back on 201 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 3: that one at fifty third. Wow. But even though Iceland 202 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 3: is leading the pack on so many of these issues, 203 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 3: it did actually slip in a couple of categories in 204 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 3: the Global Gender Gap Report. Its rankings dropped in indexes 205 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 3: of economic participation and opportunity and educational attainment. So that's 206 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 3: how many women are going to school, what's their highest 207 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 3: education level. They all slipped between twenty twenty two and 208 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 3: twenty twenty three. 209 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 2: Just going back to the strike this week? What did 210 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 2: men do whilst women were on strike? 211 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 3: So the National Women's Strike explicitly stated that men should 212 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 3: not strike with them on the twenty fourth of October. 213 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 3: What they did say is that men should show their 214 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 3: support by taking on additional responsibilities, so including in the 215 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,679 Speaker 3: home like childcare, and by picking up the slack at 216 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 3: work too to help their female and non binary colleagues 217 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 3: to be able to take the time to participate in 218 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 3: the strike. A lot of media and Iceland wrote that 219 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 3: they were expecting schools to close on Tuesday, or at 220 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,079 Speaker 3: least some schools to close or be operating at reduced 221 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 3: capacity or shortened hours. Strike organizers said that since a 222 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 3: majority of the workers in those fields would be on strike, 223 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 3: fathers would therefore have to make arrangements for the day. 224 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 2: So to end, what are the next steps for the 225 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 2: women's movement in Iceland? 226 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 3: Government has launched this investigation in Iceland into how female 227 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 3: dominated professions are valued in comparison to fields traditionally dominated 228 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 3: by men. So, for example, there are sectors of education 229 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 3: and health in Iceland that are ninety percent dominated by 230 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 3: women who were paid less than men. Strike organizers were 231 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 3: also seeking higher wages for Iceland's population of immigrant women. 232 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 3: They make up around twenty two percent of the country's 233 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 3: labor markets. So we'll wait and see if there's any 234 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 3: movement there. And there will also be a presidential election 235 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 3: in Iceland next year, so we know. Iceland's representation of 236 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 3: women in parliament is among the highest in the world. 237 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 3: The Prime Minister is its head of government. She is 238 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,719 Speaker 3: a woman, but its head of state is a president 239 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 3: and right now that's Gundi Johanneson. He was incredibly popular 240 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 3: at the last election. But it'll be interesting to see 241 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 3: if any progress on these issues shifts anything in Iceland's 242 00:12:58,200 --> 00:12:59,359 Speaker 3: political landscape. 243 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 2: Interesting topic. It's not often you hear about the prime 244 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 2: minister of a country participating in a strike. 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