Unlike American women, women in Iceland protest their employment status

Thanks to Salon's new Broadsheet for the news that in commemoration of the 1975 women's strike, 60,000 Icelandic women took to the streets for Women's Day Off on Monday. Since women make only 64.15% of what men make in Iceland, when 64.15% of the workday was over, at 2:08 p.m., they walked off their jobs. In Reykjavik, shops and banks were shut down when the women left their posts.