'We Can't Wait Until 2186': French Women Strike Against Pay Gap

French women walked off their jobs en masse Monday afternoon, as part of a protest against the pay gap that encouraged them not only to leave early—but to take the rest of the year off.

The strike, organized in part by the feminist publication Les Glorieuses, is calling attention to the fact that France’s gender wage gap means women are effectively working for free starting at 4:34pm local time until the end of the year.

“As of 4:34pm [and 7 seconds] on November 7, women will be working ‘voluntarily,'” the group stated on its website Monday, also noting that women are expected to do additional unpaid work like household chores. “We call on women, men, unions, and feminist organizations to join the movement… and to hold events and protests in order to make income inequality a central political problem. By tackling this subject, we’re showing that the gender pay gap is not just a ‘woman’s issue’.”

According to various analyses by the European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat, women are paid 15 to 20 percent less than men, and about 9 percent less when in the same job. Roughly 48 percent of the workforce—just under 13 million people—are women. People shared images from the day of action under the hashtag #7novembre16h34.