男女收入不平等 冰島女性14點集體下班

Thousands of women left work at 2:38 pm in Iceland last Monday to protest the gender pay gap in the country.

上週一，數千名冰島婦女在下午2時38分準時下班，以抗議男女工資不平等。

In Iceland, women earn 14 to 18% less than men, which means on an average eight hour workday, women are essentially working for free after 2:38 pm, according to labor unions and rights groups.

根據工會和人權組織統計，冰島女性比男性薪酬少14-18%，這意味着按每天工作8小時計算，冰島女性每天14時38分起就已在免費幹活了。

Iceland is one of the highest-ranking countries for gender equality, according to the World Economic Forum's "Global Gender Gap Report", but the protests show the country still has ways to go to reach true equality.

世界經濟論壇發佈的《全球性別差距報告》顯示，冰島是性別平等程度最高的國家之一，但抗議活動顯示冰島距離實現真正的平等還有很長的路要走。

According to the report, in 170 years women worldwide will earn as much as men and account for half of the world's bosses.

報告顯示，在世界範圍內，女性要實現與男性薪酬平等、佔據全球一半的管理者席位還需要170年。

In Iceland, it will take 52 years for women to achieve pay equality, according to trends in the past decade.

在冰島，根據最近十年的趨勢來看，實現男女薪酬平等的目標也需要52年。

Gylfi Arnbjornsson, president of the Icelandic Confederation of Labor, told that fifty years is too long to wait.

冰島勞工聯合會主席Gylfi Arnbjrnsson表示，50年等起來實在是太漫長了。

"No one puts up with waiting 50 years to reach a goal," Gylfi stated. "It doesn't matter whether it's a gender pay gap or any other pay gap. It's just unacceptable to say we'll correct this in 50 years. That's a lifetime."

Gylfi陳述道：“沒有人能夠忍受要等待50年來達到一個目標。無論是性別工資差距還是任何其他工資差距，我們都無法接受要花50年才能糾正它，因爲這是許多人一生的時間。”