Paternity leaves in Finland have nearly doubled in length after a 2022 reform of the parental leave system, the social benefits agency has said
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The world's most feminist city – how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women
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Trondheim set to welcome PoMo museum in 2025 – minimum of 60% of its acquisition budget to women artists to tackle gender inequality in museum collections at large
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Denmark became the world's first country to offer legal recognition of gay partnerships on 1 October 1989 – a day when "something shifted in human affairs"
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Thai king signs same-sex marriage bill into law
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More Chinese women graduate but jobs and equal pay still elude them: women under-represented in Stem subjects at university and afterwards are quizzed about plans to start a family
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Women’s lives under Islamic State in Niger’s Tillabery
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Traditionally in the Swedish church the bride and groom walk down the aisle together – but the patriarchal handover is catching on, and now Lutherans want to stop it
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IVF alone can’t save us from a looming fertility crisis
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The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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Parental union dissolution and the gender revolution – how divorce is boosting gender equality in Sweden
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Why tackling accent bias matters at work
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Denmark's male footballers have decided to refuse a pay rise for playing for the national team in order to ensure their female counterparts get equal basic pay
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Thailand to become first Southeast Asian nation to legalize same-sex marriage
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Mexico elects first female president − but will that improve the lot of country’s women?
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Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters
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The Day Iceland Stood Still | Trailer
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Denmark wants to conscript more people for military service – including women, for the first time
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Romantic love is an under-rated driver of gender equality
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On International Women's Day, Northern European countries stand out for women who are looking to develop their careers – Iceland secured the top spot
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Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses”
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Why are there such profound differences in conceptions of masculinity between Denmark and America?
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Fifty years since Sweden first introduced state-funded parental leave for couples to share – pioneering policy offers some surprising lessons for other countries
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It took divorce to make my marriage equal – I spent twelve years fighting for an equal partnership, when what I needed was a divorce [2020]
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The achievement of gender parity in a large astrophysics research centre
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Some call us ungrateful middle-class feminists – but this is why women went on strike in Iceland
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90% of women in India are shut out of the workforce
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PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir will take part in Iceland's first full-day womens strike in forty-eight years – calling for pay equality and action on gender-based violence
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Woman denied medication for being of childbearing age
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Denmark's first Viking queen was likely more powerful than the king, research finds
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For the fourteenth year running, Iceland takes the top position in the Global Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum
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Danish dictionary to weed out gender stereotypes – ‘career women’ are now paired with ‘career men’ and manslaughter is a linguistic offence
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Is Finland the best place in the world to be a parent – Alexandra Topping travels to Helsinki to find out why the UK pre-school system lags so far behind
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Eight in ten women married to men still take husband’s last name, survey finds
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New research debunks the gender pay gap myth that 'women don't ask'
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The women’s recession is officially over — but not everyone has recovered equally
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Why are gender pay gaps so large in Japan and South Korea?
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The day women shut down Iceland
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How extreme heat hits America's hungry
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Fewer in US say same-sex relations morally acceptable (64% in 2023, down from 71% last year)
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Strongly influenced by Quakers 175 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA
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Birth of a nation
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Taiwan grants right of adoption to same-sex couples in latest move toward full equality
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Nepal: Court orders recognition of same-sex spouse
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Women’s basketball is raking in more cash than ever, but the players aren’t
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George Takei: Love and justice beyond the stars
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Swedish retirees demand fairer pensions for women – The Old Lady Patrol's protest against the country's pension system enters its tenth year
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Church of England bishops refuse to back gay marriage
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US President Joe Biden signs marriage equality bill into law
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Same-sex marriage is now legal in all of Mexico's states
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