It has been ranked the best place in the world to be a woman for the past decade
Perhaps the greatest demonstration of this came in 1975, when Icelandic women took to the streets, angry at not being paid enough for their work ― both in and outside the home ― and frustrated at the dearth of political representation.
Today Iceland has one of the best records in the world for female political representation. At its peak in 2016, nearly 48 percent of the elected members of Iceland’s Parliament were women. That figure now sits at around 38 percent, but it’s still far above countries like the U.S.
“What has always been the problem with equal pay legislation is the fact that it put it on the employee to actually prove discrimination,” said Ómarsdóttir. That means scraping together the financial and mental resources to put up a legal fight. And even if the employee gets justice for herself, it may not help her co-workers.
It’s also a tiny society. “It really only takes one person with a great idea and society is changed in a decade,” said Ómarsdóttir, pointing to the example of a high school teacher in Reykjavik, the nation’s capital, who started to offer gender studies as an elective.
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