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Manu Sareen: gender equality is key to integration tema

Manu Sareen: gender equality is key to integration

Mar 05, 2014 Denmark is about to face the lack of gender equality in ethnic minority communities head on. The Minister for Children, Gender Equality, Integration and Social Affairs, Manu Sareen, sees young immigrants beginning to rise up against the unequal treatment of girls and boys. He encourages everyone to join in.
Italy chooses women in times of crisis tema

Italy chooses women in times of crisis

Mar 05, 2014 Half of Italy’s new government ministers are women. What impact will that have on a country with Europe’s lowest female employment rate? Prime Minister Matteo Renzi promises change. He wants immediate reforms and to get the economy going. Yet so far the boardroom quota legislation seems to be having the greatest impact on gender equality.
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The threat of quotas

Mar 05, 2014 Norway and Iceland have already introduced them and now boardroom gender quotas are rolling out across Europe.
Gender equality of historic proportions Infocus

Gender equality of historic proportions

Mar 05, 2014 For the first time ever, power is equally shared between men and women in Norway, according to the Nordic Labour Journal’s gender equality barometer. Norway has more women in positions of power, in boardrooms and in work than any other Nordic country.
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Gender equality of historic proportions

Mar 05, 2014 For the first time ever, power is equally shared between men and women in Norway, according to the Nordic Labour Journal’s gender equality barometer. Norway has more women in positions of power, in boardrooms and in work than any other Nordic country. 40 years of Nordic cooperation has inspired progress. Different nations have led the way at different times. Finland has the most female boardroom members in the EU. Sweden is busy getting more women into leadership positions. Denmark’s government sees gender equality as the key to integration. Things are happening elsewhere too. After Italy introduced gender quotas, women have flocked into boardrooms and half of the Renzi government are women.
Finland is learning the meaning of immigration tema

Finland is learning the meaning of immigration

Feb 11, 2014 Finland has taken longer to adapt its labour market to immigration than other Nordic countries. It is more than ten years ago now that the then Minister of Employment Tarja Filatov (Social Democratic Party) gathered Nordic integration expert to a meeting outside of Helsinki.
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"Every Polish worker's dream is a steady job in Norway"

Feb 11, 2014 The sizeable immigration from former Eastern European countries to the Nordic countries - and to Norway in particular - calls for integration measures which also include labour migrants, say Norwegian researchers.
A Minister visits the Office of Opportunity and the Place of Opportunity tema

A Minister visits the Office of Opportunity and the Place of Opportunity

Feb 11, 2014 “The important thing is to create a feeling of “us” for everyone who lives in Sweden and who sees their future to be here. If you want to live here you should also have a future here, but then there are issues which must be sorted out; like a job, language and security,” says Sweden’s Minister for Integration Erik Ullenhag.
Jobs are key to all Nordic countries’ integration policies tema

Jobs are key to all Nordic countries’ integration policies

Feb 11, 2014 All of the Nordic countries are attractive targets for refugees and labour migrants alike. But there are major differences both between which groups arrive and how they are received. Finland and Iceland have always stood out, but now the differences are increasing at a faster rate also between Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Positive prejudices benefit Icelandic immigrants tema

Positive prejudices benefit Icelandic immigrants

Feb 11, 2014 Being Icelandic can be an advantage if you're looking for somewhere to live and work in Norway. Icelanders themselves believe their historical roots in Norway are often the reason they’re well received by Norwegians. One anthropologist thinks Icelanders have an advantage over other immigrant groups in Norway.
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