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90% of Women Stopped Working for One Day 🇮🇸 #Shorts #LessonToday
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- On October 24, 1975, about 90% of the women in Iceland took what they called the Women's Day Off.
- They skipped their paid jobs, housework and childcare for the day to show how much the country depends on women's work.
- The BBC reports that banks, factories, some shops, schools and nurseries had to close, many fathers took their kids to work, and sausages sold out in the shops.
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