{"id":1420,"date":"2025-10-31T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:41:46","slug":"29-25-iceland-womens-strike-50-years-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"#29-25 Iceland Women&#8217;s Strike\u00a0&#8211;\u00a050 years of progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Description:\u00a0Fifty years ago, on October 24, 1995, 90% of the women in Iceland\u00a0(and on board a ship)\u00a0stopped work for a day to protest inequality. The results going forward from that action have been phenomenal:\u00a0Iceland leads the world in women&#8217;s equality. Filmmakers Pamela Hogan from the US and Hrafnhildur Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir\u00a0from\u00a0Iceland spent years\u00a0researching, recording, and producing\u00a0<em>The Day Iceland Stood Still<\/em>, compensating for lack of archival footage with \u00a0animation.\u00a0It was difficult fundraising, too.\u00a0The pair spoke with Hope Katz Gibbs of InkandescentTV, for the 50th anniversary of that strike.\u00a0They believe\u00a0Iceland&#8217;s example can lead the world.\u00a0\u00a0Original audio source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rhTdli8w6oM&amp;t=15s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rhTdli8w6oM&amp;t=15s<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0Adapted for WINGS by Frieda Werden.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-29-25IcelandStrike-28_50-128kbps.mp3\">https:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-29-25IcelandStrike-28_50-128kbps.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rhTdli8w6oM&amp;t=15s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rhTdli8w6oM&amp;t=15s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description:\u00a0Fifty years ago, on October 24, 1995, 90% of the women in Iceland\u00a0(and on board a ship)\u00a0stopped work for a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,450,533,150,531,36,42,474,60,532,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-archive","category-equality","category-future","category-history","category-iceland","category-politics","category-regional","category-sexism-2","category-society-and-culture","category-solidarity","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}