Estimates for the crowd downtown were 100k people which I think is something like 4x over people’s expectations earlier in the week. Not counting any other gathering elsewhere.
[1]: https://www.statice.is/publications/news-archive/inhabitants...
If that many people support the changes, couldn’t they just vote for them? I can’t imagine that fully 75% of the non-striking 66% would turn out to vote against whatever changes the strikers are proposing
Furthermore, Iceland has held the 1st position on the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap report for 14 consecutive years [1], so it's not like things are really bad compared to the rest of the world.
This strike is primarily to draw attention to the fact that the rate of change has stalled, and that needs to change.
[1] https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-repor...