fiftieth anniversary of the 1975 ‘girls’s break day’ strike

For at some point in 1975, 90% of the ladies in Iceland took the break day. They stopped working. Stopped cooking. Stopped cleansing. And gathered within the streets to demand equality. 50 years later, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour speaks to Icelandic president Halla Tómasdóttir about what progress the nation has made in the direction of larger gender equality. #cnn #information