Not everyone was on board though. Even with statistics on our side, there’s still a healthy amount of scepticism and debate surrounding the issue of equal pay.

It should be simple. Women receive 18.1% less pay than male counterparts for doing the same job. Fields traditionally considered ‘female’ are often undervalued and overworked, particularly if they’re caregiving roles.

Comments questioning and ridiculing the walkout were scattered amongst messages of solidarity, but we didn’t really expect anything else. 2016 has been a year of new challenges for women’s movements worldwide, but if anything it’s taught us that raising voices and awareness is more important than ever

The Stylist #EqualPayDay initiative won’t reimburse everyone working for free from now until 1 January 2017. It’s a start though, and it doesn’t stop here: until women in the UK have a share of the pie equal to that of the men they work alongside, we’re going to keep yelling at the top of our lungs.

Keep your ears and eyes peeled everyone… Stylist aren’t letting this one go.

What happened when the women of Stylist walked out of work for #EqualPayDay?