A hotel in Denmark is refusing to remove its women-only floor despite being told by the country’s equality board that it is illegal. The Bella Sky Hotel in Copenhagen says its 17th Bella Donna floor will stay free of men despite pressure from the Equal Treatment Board to abandon the venture. Read the full story

Top Norwegian military officials have apologised after a female soldier from Oslo was forced to bathe naked in a freezing lake with 30 other male personnel. Read the full story

A Swedish lingerie chain may be sued by its union after complaints from staff members who are told to wear name tags displaying their bra sizes. Read the full story

A debate has been sparked over a new website featuring secretly snapped photos of attractive men riding the Stockholm metro. Read the full story

A young Icelandic checkout assistant has reported 16 companies, including the one he works for, for breaching equality laws in the way they treat women. Read the full story

A new feature in the magazine Newsweek concludes that the best place in the world to be a woman is Iceland. Read the full story

This weekend sees Reykjavik’s annual Gay Pride celebration, with a wide range of events; the highlights of which are Saturday’s family-friendly parade and outdoor concerts. Read the full story

According to new figures from the World Economic Forum (WEF), Iceland remains the country with the highest level of equality between men and women for the second year in a row. Read the full story

Women are set to take over traditional male roles in Sweden, according to a new forecast. Within 20 years, the majority of doctors, architects, lawyers and economists in the country will be female, if the latest figures from Statistics Sweden (SCB) are to be believed. Read the full story

Single women, gay couples and heterosexual couples who both suffer from fertility issues now have permission to use both donor eggs and donor sperm in IVF treatment following a law passed my Iceland’s Althingi parliament yesterday. Read the full story