Islandia: emakumeen garrantzia

Informazio pixka bat:

(i) Islandia euskaraz¹ (Iceland ingelesez²)

(ii) Irudiak³

(iii) John Curlin-en Crónicas de Islandia: El mejor país del mundo⁴

Islandiako emakumeak

John Carlin: A Nordic revolution: The heroines of Reykjavik⁵

“Iceland was the first place to suffer the fallout from over-zealous (male) bankers. Now the country is back on its feet. Why? Because women took over.”

Zipriztinak:

(i) Bankuak:

“Iceland’s three main banks collapsed in October 2008, leaving debts more than 10 times the size of the country’s GDP. The country, until then number one in the United Nations Human Development Index (ie, the best place to be a human being on planet Earth), was way beyond bankrupt. And men were blamed. “

(ii) Macho thinking

“But where all in parliament are agreed is that the days of macho capitalism are over. The key word now is sustainability, echoed by all parties in practically every public pronouncement these days. And sustainability, in minister Jakobsdottir’s view, is more a female concept than a male one. She explained.

“A lot of people blamed the bankers’ excesses that landed us in such trouble on a male culture,” she said. “In 2009 the word was, ‘We need less of this macho thinking; we need pragmatic, strategically-minded women in charge now’. What we have learnt since then is that if we want to stay out of crisis and build, we all know now we have to think in terms, not of the immediate future, but of the next 10 or 20 years. That is not the way a male-dominated government would be thinking; that is a female way of thinking.””

(iii) Islandiako andreak

“It helps, she said, that society is structured in such a way that women in Iceland do not have to choose between career and family. Both culturally (the Vikings were apparently relaxed about their womenfolk conceiving and reproducing at home while they were away raping and pillaging) and in terms of state legislation on child custody and maternity or paternity leave, Icelandic women have as good a deal as humanity has come up with so far. According to the latest World Economic Forum report on gender equality, Iceland comes first in the world. (“I live partly in Switzerland,” Sigurgisladottir told me, “and the difference with women’s place in society there is shocking!”)

Iceland’s women had attained these social gains, the envy of the rest of the female world, before the financial crisis struck. Since the crisis they have embellished the equality achieved in the home and in the workplace with a new influence and authority at the centre of political and economic power. As the mother of three children under the age of eight, the person in charge of the state portfolios of education, science and culture, and the number two in Iceland’s ruling party – meaning she is a likely future prime minister – Katrin Jackobsdottir is the diminutive Amazon who embodies these changes.”

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