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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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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Parental union dissolution and the gender revolution – how divorce is boosting gender equality in Sweden
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Mexico elects first female president − but will that improve the lot of country’s women?
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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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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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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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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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Top performers include Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands in the European EIGE Gender Equality Index for 2022
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This 33-year-old made more than 1,000 Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists
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The more gender equality, the fewer women in STEM
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In mainland Iceland's northernmost town, the women who powered the herring industry – and fought for gender equality – are driving a new tourism boom
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Eliza Reid: ‘The ancient Icelandic word 'sprakkar' means outstanding women. And they're all around us’.
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Why boyish girls are judged less than girlish boys
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When times are good, the gender gap grows
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Lego has announced it will work to remove gender stereotypes from its toys – research reveals harmful stereotypes still hindering girls, boys and their parents
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In an open letter, five Nordic sports ministers have urged the International Handball Federation to review their uniform rules for female athletes
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Iceland elects Europe's first female majority parliament – but Katrín Jakobsdóttir's future as PM looks to be in doubt after her party lost several seats
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As women become 60% of all US college students and continue to outpace & outperform men, the WSJ takes a look at how colleges and students feel about it
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US Supreme Court turns away challenge to the rule that only men register for the draft
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Royal Navy appoints Jersey woman as first female admiral
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Finland's football association donates sport hijabs to players – part of a series of initiatives marking fifty years of organised women's football
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Research: Adding women to the C-suite changes how companies think
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DNB ASA, Norway's biggest bank, achieved the highest score for equality between the sexes of all corporations in the Equileap Gender Equality Global Report & Ranking of 2021
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The Economist Glass-Ceiling Index 2020 – Nordic countries performed best overall, with Sweden, Iceland, Finland and Norway taking the top four spots
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Norway's $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund wants the companies it invests in globally to boost the number of women on their boards
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Pernille Harder opens up on equality in football and the time the Danish women's team took on their own national federation
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