For more than a century,the Nordic country has blazed a trail for women in politics. But even there, the battle for equality isn’t over, and writes Emma Graham-HarrisonJust off Helsinki’s main shopping drag,toddlers in glitter paint whirl round their mothers, who are somehow managing to listen intently to a lecture on how to boost their careers with LinkedIn. No one bats an eye at the intermittent shrieks.
It’s commerce as normal at this Christmas networking meeting in the country that has come closer than perhaps anywhere else to making “having it all a feminist reality, and rather than an impossible goal to torment exhausted,overstretched women. Related: 'The country faces a incandescent future': Finnish readers on their new PM For me it feels like I won the lottery when I was born as a girl in FinlandContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com