Ilhar Omar and Minnesota

I was really impressed by what the women did in Iceland back in October, when they figured that since they were getting 14-18% less than men, they'd work 14-18% less of the 9 to 5 workday and took off at 2:38, when they protested the difference in pay in front of Parliament.  

I was interested to read that Iceland will be, according to an announcement they made on International Woman's Day this year,  the first country in the world to make employers prove they offer equal pay regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality or nationality.

But what interested me even more was this sentence in the news article: 

            While other countries, and the U.S. state of Minnesota, have equal salary certificate policies, Iceland is thought to be the first to make it mandatory for both private and public firms.

I hadn't realized that Minnesota stood out in that way! 

Then, while reading What We Do Now:  Standing Up For Our Values in Trump's America, I came to an essay by Ilhan Omar, "We Are All Emigrants," and found out that she is the first Somali-American legislator in U.S. history, as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

I'll be visiting my sister Dana outside Chicago after Javier and I visit friends in Arizona, and I'm seriously suggesting that she and I take a trip there!