4.5
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For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle, from electing the world's first female president to passing legislation specifically designed to help even the playing field at work and at home? And how can we learn from what Icelanders have already discovered about women's powerful place in society and how increased fairness benefits everyone?
Eliza Reid, the First Lady of Iceland, examines her adopted homeland's attitude toward women-the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness, the influence of current and historical role models, and, crucially, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement. Reid's own experience as an immigrant from small-town Canada who never expected to become a first lady is expertly interwoven with interviews with dozens of sprakkar ("extraordinary women") to form the backbone of an illuminating discussion of what it means to move through the world as a woman, and how the rules of society play more of a role in who we view as "equal" than we may understand.
© 2022 Tantor Audio (Ljudbok): 9781666197488
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Ljudbok: 17 maj 2022
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4.5
Biografier
For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle, from electing the world's first female president to passing legislation specifically designed to help even the playing field at work and at home? And how can we learn from what Icelanders have already discovered about women's powerful place in society and how increased fairness benefits everyone?
Eliza Reid, the First Lady of Iceland, examines her adopted homeland's attitude toward women-the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness, the influence of current and historical role models, and, crucially, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement. Reid's own experience as an immigrant from small-town Canada who never expected to become a first lady is expertly interwoven with interviews with dozens of sprakkar ("extraordinary women") to form the backbone of an illuminating discussion of what it means to move through the world as a woman, and how the rules of society play more of a role in who we view as "equal" than we may understand.
© 2022 Tantor Audio (Ljudbok): 9781666197488
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Ljudbok: 17 maj 2022
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19 mars 2023
En fantastisk bok där Eliza Reid reflekterar över hur Island blivit det mest jämställda landet i världen. Men hon reflekterar också över hennes roll som first lady på Island. Att hon förväntas vara vid sin mans sida som hans tillbehör vid olika uppdrag även om inte varit specifikt inbjuden eller haft någon särskild roll. Men att hon liksom Hillary Clinton och Michelle Obama haft sin egen karriär och ambitioner att använda ämbetet till att bidra till positiv utveckling av exempelvis jämställdhet. Som att skriva denna bok. Otroligt bra bok som jag verkligen rekommenderar att läsa!
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