50th anniversary of the 1975 ‘women’s day off’ strike

For one day in 1975, 90% of the women in Iceland took the day off. They stopped working. Stopped cooking. Stopped cleaning. And gathered in 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 towards greater gender equality. #cnn #news