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Icelandic Companies Asked To Abandon Diversity Policies For U.S. Contracts
Icelandic companies are being required to comply with U.S. laws that prohibit implementing policies promoting diversity, equity, or inclusion (DEI), reports RÚV. However, Icelandic law mandates that companies have equality plans in place. Icelandic companies wishing to do business with the U.S.…
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Counter Anti-Queer Extremism By Fighting Hate Crimes, Listening To Affected Individuals
Violence and hate crimes against queer people and the LGBTQ+ community have been prominent around this year’s Pride festival. Notably, Oslo pride was canceled this year because of a shooting shortly before at a popular gay club. [su_pullquote]To celebrate reaching 200 RVK…
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University Of Iceland Increasing The Number Of Gender Neutral Facilities
Gender neutral facilities can now be found in most of the buildings at the University of Iceland (HÍ), reports Vísir. The university has been criticized for not offering the option for gender neutral lavatories everywhere. [su_pullquote]Join our High Five Club at either…
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Iceland Is Still The Best Place In The World To Be A Woman
For the 11th year in a row, Iceland is the country ranking first in the World Economic Forum’s Geneva Equality List. The list looks into 14 variables to measure equality, such as political participation, health, education, and employment to see how close…
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Being Black In Iceland: An Interview With Jewells Chambers
Jewells Chambers is originally from Brooklyn, moved to Iceland in 2016, and has been very busy since then. She manages the website From Foreign To Familiar and runs the All Things Iceland podcast. A YouTube video she published with friend Tabitha Laker…
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Gender Wage Gap In Iceland Difficult To Measure
The gender wage gap in Iceland, when numerous extenuating elements are factored in, has decreased between 2008 and 2016, Kjarninn reports, having gone from 6.6% in 2008 to 4.5% today. This is a considerably smaller number than what has been reported in…
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Last Words: Transformation Sequence
A couple weeks ago, I publicly came out as trans and non-binary. The journey to this point began in my early childhood, followed some dark and foggy paths through my teens and young adult years, but was recently given a guiding light…
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Iceland Now Forbids Nearly Every Form Of Workplace Discrimination
Iceland has just passed a landmark law that forbids multiples types of workplace discrimination, with daily fines to be meted out to offending employers. The law in question, submitted to Parliament by Minister of Social Affairs Ásmundur Einar Daðason, expressly forbids discrimination…
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Fired From Clean-Eating Restaurant In Reykjavik For Not Being Vegan
About a week ago, a member of the kitchen staff at popular clean-eating restaurant Gló, which is located downtown, was fired for not being vegan, Stundin reports. According to the reporter, who had read the letter of dismissal, the reason behind the…
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Museums in Strange Places Podcast #13: The Women’s History Archive in Iceland
Hey there. I’m Hannah. I’m an American museum professional and Fulbright Fellow living in Reykjavík, and I’m the host of a podcast dedicated to exploring Iceland’s museums. Why? Because Iceland has a staggering 165 museums (that’s way more museums per person than…
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Research Attempts To Find Reason Behind Icelanders’ Innovative Spirit
According to a new research by the University of Kansas published in the magazine ‘Gifted and Talented International,’ Icelanders’ prolific creativity arises from their extensive educational curriculum as well as from social equality and the support for cultural innovation encouraged by public…
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Gender Wage Gap: Growing In Some Sectors, Shrinking In Others
Iceland has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the most egalitarian countries in the world, not least of all when it comes to gender issues. This does not, however, mean everything is perfect. RÚV reports, according to data gathered by two…
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Fair Pay, Fair Play: Closing The Gender Wage Gap In Iceland
I can’t remember when I became aware of the gender pay gap. I can’t remember my mum ever patting me on the back and saying, “Go get ‘em kid! Go get your almost equal pay!” Once it dawned on me—that women struggled…
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Icelandic Glacial Water Praised For Using Black Model In Ad
POC (people of colour) advocate, actress and blogger Franchesca Ramsey has given kudos to Icelandic Glacial water for using a dark skinned model in their advertising campaign. Icelandic Glacial Water used Senegalese beauty Khoudia Diop to front their ‘Pure Authenticity Campaign’, alongside…
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In Response To Gender Wage Gap, Women In Iceland Leaving Work Today At 14:38
Women across Iceland will be leaving their workplaces at 14:38 today which, when the gender wage gap is factored in, is effectively the time in an 8-hour day when they stop being paid for their work. RÚV reports that there have been…
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How Working In Iceland Turned Me Into An Angry Feminist
I have always been a feminist. I am a girl, and I am also logical, so the concept that I should have the same opportunities in life as my brothers always made sense to me. I love being a lady-person, and I…
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Number Of Women In Corporate Leadership Positions On The Rise
A third of managers, chairs and members of Board of Directors at Icelandic enterprises with 50 or more employees were women at the end of 2014, according to Statistics Iceland. This is an increase of 0,4 % since 2013 and 12,8 % since…
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Don’t Ask Nanna: About Icelandic Politics
Dear Nanna, One thing I’ve always admired about Iceland is the politics. How your countrymen jailed the bankers and overthrew the shitty government. How can I motivate the same change in my own country? Thanks, Positive Outlook Dear Positive Outlook, Yes Icelanders…
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Court Ruling: Iceland Failed To Implement Five EU Directives
On Wednesday, the EFTA court ruled against the Icelandic state in five separate cases, all concerning Iceland’s “failure to fulfil its obligations” in implementing EU regulation. One case concerned “regulation on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre…
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For A Better Society
It seems that in every mention of Icelandic women by the foreign media, Iceland is praised as a feminist utopia where women are completely equal to men on all fronts, and to a certain extent, these assertions are correct. Iceland had the…
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Former PM At WorldPride: In The End Love Conquered All
Iceland’s former Prime Minister-slash-the world’s first openly gay head of state Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir gave her first address on LGBT rights in Toronto at the WorldPride Human Rights Conference yesterday. In her speech Jóhanna expressed gratitude for LGBT activists who fought with such…
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Being Best In The World Ain’t Good Enough
Iceland is often hailed as a beacon of equality in an otherwise patriarchal world. We have elected several women into positions of power, including Vigdís Finnbogadóttir as the first female president and Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir as the first openly lesbian prime minister, and…