The majority of female parliamentarians in Iceland fades, albeit briefly. A recount shows that out of 63 parliamentarians from Althingi, 30 of them are women - 47.6% - and no longer 33.
In only one of the six constituencies of the island, which also has a very complex electoral system, 3 seats were reassigned to men.
However, the presence of women in the halls of the Icelandic Parliament remains significant, considering that no country of the Old Continent has ever crossed the symbolic threshold of 50 percent. Now Iceland is competing with Sweden for primacy in Europe.
Outside Europe Rwanda does well with 61.3% of women in the lower house, followed by Cuba (53.4%) and Nicaragua (50.6%). It's Italy? The percentage of those elected to the House stops at 36.06%, in the Senate at 35.11%.
GENDER EQUALITY - The Icelandic result is certainly not accidental but the result of a deep-rooted culture of gender equality that has placed the country at the top of the World Economic Forum for 12 consecutive years. In Iceland, to begin with, parental leave is the same for men and women, its first law on equal pay dates back to 1961 and to cancel the residual wage inequalities between the sexes in 2018 a law was passed that requires companies with over 25 employees a certification attesting to equal pay, not only of gender but also ethnicity.
Iceland was also the first country in the world to elect a female president in 1980, then 50-year-old Vigds Finnbogadottir, re-elected for three more terms and in office for 16 years. The current prime minister is also a woman: Katrin Jakobsdottir. In reality, the elections did not go very well for her: her Left-Green party lost three seats and with 12.6% moved to third place behind her two allies in the heterogeneous governing coalition made up of the Progress Party ( center-right) by Sigurour Ingi Johannsson and by the Independence Party (conservative) of the veteran of island politics Bjarni Benediktsson.
(Unioneonline / D)
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