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  • What Have We Won?: Gender Equality! Ok, Not Quite…

    What Have We Won?: Gender Equality! Ok, Not Quite…

    Iceland has been placed first in the Global Gender Gap Report not once, but nine times. The report, which is published annually by the World Economic Forum, measures the gender gap in the areas of economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health…

  • Við Erum Best!

    Við Erum Best!

    At last count, there were 326,340 people living in Iceland. That’s .0045% of the world’s population and while it isn’t really a competition, this has created a bit of an inferiority complex among some Icelanders who, as Grapevine writer Oddur Sturluson put…