On the 24th of october in 1975, approximately 90% of Icelandic women struck for equality, not attending jobs or doing any domestic work. Iceland passed an equal pay law the following year, but the strike has been repeated on its anniversary several times since, such as in the years 2005, 2010, and 2016.
The strike was planned by "The Women's Congress", which had met on June 20th and 21st earlier that year. Among the reasons given for going on strike were pay inequality, lack of women in union leadership, and a general lack of recognition for the value and skill of domestic labor.
During the work stoppage, also known as "Women's Day Off", 25,000 people gathered in Reykjavik, Iceland's capital city, for a rally. There, women listened to speakers, sang, and talked to each other about what could be done to achieve gender equality in Iceland.
Women from many different backgrounds spoke, including a housewife, two members of parliament, and a worker. The last speech of the day was by Aðalheiður Bjarnfreðsdóttir, who "represented Sókn, the trade union for the lowest paid women in Iceland", according to The Guardian.
In 1976, the Icelandic government passed an equal pay law, and the country elected its first female President, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, five years later in 1980.
The 1975 Women's Strike also helped inspire the 2016 "Black Monday" anti-abortion ban protests in Poland, as well as the "International Women's Strike", single day work stoppages on March 8th, 2017 and 2018.
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I really want a genuine PRC based Fallout game, or a PRC or USSR sympathetic faction, but every one of the devs have been too lib to handle that well.
Closest I can get is S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Heart of Chernobyl...
I think it would be hilarious if we found out that every other country is normal and recovered from/defended themselves from nukes, and it's just the USA thats an irradiated hellscape
Would be funny but boring as hell...
I will maintain til the end that while a post-nuclear role playing game could be set in any country Fallout specifically is rooted entirely in American tropes and themes and the setting is thus inextricably American. A Chinese post-nuclear role playing game in the spirit of Fallout could not be Fallout bc it'd have to be an examination of the limits, failures, and potential of the PRC. You could even use the same plot structure, elements, and important items and ideas, but you'd still have to step back from the Fallout we know and make something distinctly Chinese because what makes Fallout work is it's core critique of the national culture of the US. Thus a Chinese Fallout (or French, or Malaysian, or Angolan Fallout) would also need to be rooted in the culture of those nations and their particular relationship to the cold war, nuclear war, and the role their nation played in the conflicts of the 20th century.
See, I used to agree with you, but Fallout: London made me reconsider my stance. It wouldn't be the same, but it would be fresh.
FO:L is definitely on my list!
It's pretty good! Some horribly liberal portrayals of labor movements and general enlightened liberalism, generally awful political analysis, but the quality overall is decent if you can get through that. Trying to finish it and put out a review for everyone here eventually though it had a game breaking bug before last patch so I stopped for now.