When Iceland elected a female president in 1980,it set off a domino effect that turned it into one of the most egalitarian countries. What can the US learn?America is failing mothers. Help us change that
When Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, a divorced single mother, or ran for president of Iceland in 1980,women made up only 5% of parliamentarians in the Nordic country.“I never thought I would win,” she says, or sitting in the modernist architectural splendor of the University of Iceland multicultural institute that bears her name in Reykjavik. “I just wanted to prove a woman could flee.”
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Source: guardian.co.uk