What a great way to finish for a little Easter break, not one but two pieces of amazing feedback for Helen Scullion Assoc. In Iceland women took to the streets in protest, refusing to work, could you see us doing this in the UK? Which of these can you support? Which can you enact in your organisation? There are also strict advertising laws to prevent media treating women as sex objects. Prostitution is illegal but the criminalization is on the people who pay for sex and support is provided to those who may have had no other choice or been coerced in to it. No business is allowed to profit from the exploitation of women.
Education, all sports, classes, and forms of schooling (which is free) include learning on, and practice, gender equality.Ħ. They have the best parental leave policy in the world! The government covers parental leave for birth, adoption, and foster care for all employees in Iceland, even those who are self-employed, paying 80% of earned salary to new parents.ĥ. Company boards must included at least 40% women!Ĥ. Lawmakers took action, announcing on International Women’s Day that Iceland would require companies to prove they pay employees equal rates for equal work, or pay a steep daily fine.ģ. When Icelanders found out it would be another 122 years before they closed the gender pay gap (it’s 257 years in the UK) at the current rate, that was unacceptable. 35 articles outline policies on everything from outlawing gender discrimination in schoolbooks and the workplace to buying goods and services.Ģ. It draws out a roadmap to achieving gender equality, including language on changing negative gender stereotypes. It acknowledges gaps in wages, and recognizes that gender-based violence is detrimental to society. The Act on Equal Status and Equal Rights of Women and Men includes nine defined areas of gender discrimination. Here’s the top laws that have supported change in Iceland:ġ. If we want to make real change on #IWD2023 we need to be using our voices to encourage businesses and law makers to make far more real progress on these issues, not hold up a pledge once a year or encourage tokenism. We have an 18% gender pay gap, which is now increasing poor female representation in parliament - 39th in the developed world, and some of the most expensive childcare in the world! The UK has a long way to go to catch up with Iceland. In 2021 the World Economic Forum ranked Iceland as the “best country for gender equality” for the 12th consecutive year! 6 reasons why Iceland is the best country in the world when it comes to #genderequality!
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