Iceland PM joins 100,000 people for first full-day women’s strike in 48 years

Katrin Jakobsdottir says she wants country to achieve full gender equality by 2030 as third of population attend event in capital

The prime minister of Iceland has said she wants to achieve full gender equality in her country by 2030 as she joined an estimated 100,000 women and non-binary people in an all-day strike, the biggest protest the country has ever seen.

Speaking outside her office before the start of a huge gathering in the centre of Reykjavik on Tuesday, Katrin Jakobsdottir said the world was dragging its feet on gender equality but that Iceland was doing its best to deal with huge issues" around the gender pay gap, gender-based violence and sexual harassment.