Icelandic women cut working day to protest wage gap Monday Oct 24,2016

 

Iceland might be rated as one of the best countries in the world in terms of women’s rights, but some disparities continue.

 To protest this, thousands of Icelandic women left work Monday Oct 24,2016 at 2:38pm.

The timing was no coincidence: if you paid men and women the same hourly wage, women would work considerably shorter days because their yearly salaries are so much less than their male counterparts.

The date of the protest, October 24, is also symbolic. On October 24, 1975, Icelandic women organised their very first protest against the wage gap. In 1975, they left work at 2:05pm. Since then, the women have made it a tradition. In 2005, women left work at 2:08pm. In 2010, they left at 2:25pm.