Posted on 07 December 2011.
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
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Posted on 25 November 2011.
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
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Posted on 17 October 2011.
Iceland’s former foreign minister, Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, is on her way to Afghanistan to take up a United Nations position. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 October 2011.
Swedish statisticians are predicting that the number of men in the country will soon outweigh the number of women, ending a phenomenon much celebrated by heterosexual men: for centuries there have been considerably more women than men in Sweden. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 September 2011.
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
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Posted on 19 September 2011.
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
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Posted on 11 August 2011.
Thousands of people took part in the so-called ‘SlutWalk’ at the weekend in Helsinki, a feminist march aimed at removing the way women dress from the debate about sexual assault. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 August 2011.
A Swedish mustard company has been slammed for being chauvinist after releasing an advertising campaign about what constitutes a ‘real man’. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 June 2011.
The Swedish Enforcement Authority has revealed that Swedish women are now defaulting on SMS loans at the same rate as men, for the first time ever. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 May 2011.
A column written by Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, on the Council’s new convention on Domestic violence against women which will be open for signatures tomorrow, during the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers conference being held today and tomorrow in Istanbul. Read the full story
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Åland shipwreck beer could be brewed again
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