On October 24, 1975, nearly every woman in Iceland stopped working, cooking, cleaning, and caregiving for an entire day, an event that became known as the Women’s Day Off and quietly exposed how much of society was being held together by labor that went unpaid and largely unacknowledged. About 90 percent of Icelandic women participated, walking out of offices, factories, schools, shops, and homes, which forced businesses to close, grounded flights, shut down phone services, and left men scrambli