Thousands of women in Iceland leave work at exactly 2:38 PM to protest against gender gap in wages

NEW DELHI: Thousands of people - mostly women - gathered at a square in Iceland's capital Reykjavik on Monday to protest against the gender gap in wages, after leaving work at exactly 2:38 PM, reports said.
Why 2:38 PM? The idea is that because of the wage gap, women aren't actually paid for any work they do after that time - if we assume that they work from 9AM to 5PM, the IcelandMonitor explained on Monday.
At the massive gathering in downtown Reykjavik, protestors mimicked a clap used by football aficionados to say 'out' to the disparity between womens' income and that of their male compatriots, Iceland Review reported.

That this extraordinary - and inspiringly creative - protest should be organized in Iceland is significant. This is, after all, the nation which topped the World Economic Forum's (WEF) 2016 Global Gender Gap index rankings.
This is the eighth consecutive year in which Iceland has topped the index, which ranks 144 countries on a number of paramaters, such as differences in educational attainment, economic participation and opportunity, healthy life expectancy and political empowerment. India was ranked 87th - a significant improvement from last year, when it was ranked 108th.
The report, however ranked Iceland 11th with respect to 'Wage equality for similar work.'
And that's precisely what the Reykjavik residents who took to the streets at 2:38 PM wanted to change.