Swedish women fight for equal pay ... by burning $13,000!!!

The Feminist Initiative (Feministisk Initiativ - Fi) carried out its promise to burn 100,000 kronor ($13,000) on Tuesday morning, claiming that a half-page ad would never have had the same impact in the fight for equal pay between the sexes.

"We are doing this for equal pay," party leader Gudrun Schyman told the assembled crowd of media and onlookers in Visby on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland on Tuesday morning.

The burning barbecue stood on a platform on Hamnplan in the city with a Fi banner as a backdrop declaring "We set fire for democracy". More...

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