Iceland makes it illegal to pay men more than women

Iceland has become the first country in the world to make equal pay for men and women compulsory.

The country has made it illegal to pay men more than women.

Under the new law, Companies with 25 employees will have to obtain equal pay certification from the government.

"It's a mechanism to ensure women and men are being paid equally," Dagny Osk Aradottir Pind, a board member of the Icelandic Women's Rights Association, told Al Jazeera. 

"We have had legislation saying that pay should be equal for men and women for decades now but we still have a pay gap."

Companies failing to apply pay equality will face a fine of $500.