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Why Iceland is the World Champion of Gender Equality
Brut America
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3/25/2025
It's a great time to be a woman... in Iceland. Here are three reasons why.
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Well, I guess that's one of the fundamental reasons why we need this law is because it's
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not something that you can easily feel or see.
00:45
Well, you can have maybe a feeling for it, but it's very hard to prove.
01:15
The issues that concern women specifically are always the last to be considered and we,
01:27
like in this country, we were getting very impatient.
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We cannot wait for daycare centers anymore.
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We cannot wait for longer maternity leave anymore.
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We cannot wait to have a similar pay on the labor market as men anymore.
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So if men are not going to do it, we simply have to do it ourselves.
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When I realized that this seemed so important in the world, that a woman should be elected
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as President of Iceland, it opened my eyes and I became a feminist.
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