Congratulations all the women of Iceland on a fantastically successfull day! :D
Down town Reykjavík was packed as women of all ages (and some men certainly) came to demonstrate against the gender-based wage difference by quitting early today. Since women only get about 64% of men's wages they decided to leave work after 64% of a full work day (at 14:08 in a 9-17 workday) and march downtown. This is also in honour of the first women's day-off, thirty years ago. I am still depressed after missing that one, eventhough I was legally excused, not being born and all. Today somewhere between 40.000 and 60.000 people gathered down-town... for a country of less than 300.000 this is quite a feat!!
Equal work, equal pay!