TOKYO - In 1975, women in Iceland stopped work and household chores to protest gender pay gaps in a male-dominated society. The resulting reforms made the country a leader in gender equality. More than half a century later, women in Japan, ranked 118th out of 148 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, are trying to do likewise.
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