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Theme: The two sides of equality
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Theme: The two sides of equality

| Photo: Björn Lindahl

How hard can it be? Iceland's Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has taken on the gender equality portfolio herself in the Icelandic government. The country achieves close to a full score in the NLJ's gender equality barometer.

But gender equality is not the same as general equality, warns Sweden's LO. In Denmark, it is the EU which is pushing for paternal leave, while in Finland there is a heated debate about the basic income.    

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