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More people should know about the day 90% of Icelandic women went on strike, forcing real political change towards gender equality: www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

It wasn’t just striking from work—participating women also did no housework that day. On the other hand, the Icelandic father role is not like the American father role in very many ways.

Among other things, Icelandic women have broadly always worked, as well — there isn’t really the concept of a housewife/SAHM, even to this day. Also families don’t work in the nuclear American way. So the balance of childcare was never based on quite so lopsided a gender split.