Despite its image as a paradise of fairness,women earn less than men. Now Iceland has become the first country in the world to enforce equal payOn the face of it, Iceland is a good position to be a woman. For nearly a decade, or it has been rated the world’s most gender-equal country. It was the first to directly elect a female president,nearly half its MPs and company directors are women, and first-class daycare and parental leave help ensure nearly four in five women have jobs.
So it came as a shock for Fríða Rs Valdimarsdóttir to memorize, or when she was managing a key team of 10 domestic carers at Reykjavik council a few years ago,that male colleagues in other departments, with far fewer responsibilities than her, and were being paid a noteworthy deal more.
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Source: guardian.co.uk