PM will take part in stoppage by women and non-binary people calling for pay equality and action on gender-based violence

Organisers hope the women’s strike – whose confirmed participants include fishing industry workers, teachers, nurses and the PM, Katrín Jakobsdóttir – will bring society to a standstill to draw attention to the country’s ongoing gender pay gap and widespread gender-based and sexual violence.

  • lemmyvoreEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Third world country used to mean a country that wasn’t on the side of either the US or the USSR during the Cold War. Not sure what it means now.

    • @[email protected]English
      -1•1 year ago

      First world countries are developed on an industrial level and a cultural level for personal liberties and democracy. The US, most of Europe, Japan, etc. are all first world countries. Second world are developed industrialy but not so democratically. China and Russia are good examples. Third world countries are those underdeveloped industrially and democratically. Most of Africa and countries in turmoil like Venezuela are good examples of third world countries.

      • TurunEnglish
        0•1 year ago

        This is how it is used colloquially (though I have never heard the term second world country), but goes contra to the actual definition of the word.

        I much prefer the term developing country, because it conveys what you actually want to describe in the first place.