1. Which country is leading the world in bridging gender gaps?
      Iceland

    2. What’s one of Iceland’s secrets to success in topping gender equality rankings?
      Starting early

    3. What are the 17 schools focused on?
      cultivating charateristics for both genders….
      [challenging extreme gender stereotypes before they take routine boys and girls
      [ developing a healthy balance of charateristics in both sexs
      4. What is a Daddy Quota?
      statutory parternity leave

    4. What did Iceland become the first country to do this year?
      payment based on job vlaues …

    5. What is the unconscious bias that we all have according to the woman?
      we place more values on traditionally male-dominated jobs

    6. What do the critics say about the law?
      Critics of the law point out there will be significant financial consequences for companies as they rectify their pay inequalities.

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    Today women around the globe have ①_ _ _ power, wealth, and education than men.
    less access to

    But one tiny island is ②__ the world in ③_ these gaps.Iceland is ④_ ways to get more mothers back to work, to root out ⑤_ _, and to close the pay gap.
    leading in bridging pionnering the, standared stererotpye

    “It’s a human rights issue, isn’t it? Paying the same wage for equally valuable jobs.”

    Could Iceland inspire the world to solve one of its greatest problems?

    “Equality is absolutely the key to everything.”

    Iceland ⑥_ _ gender equality rankings for nearly a decade. One of the secrets to their success: ⑦_ _.

    has topped, start earilier

    This kindergarten in the capital Reykjavik focuses on challenging extreme gender stereotypes before they ⑧_ _ in boys and girls.

    take routine?

    “For boys, for example, always be strong, always decisive, always taking charge, they will end up bullying, fighting, breaking rules. We do it with girls as well. If you’re always helpful, caring, things about others, always looking at a friend for acceptance, you will have forgotten about yourself. We need to get away from the extreme qualities. We need to get more in the middle, all of us.”

    It’s a mission that’s led to the creation of 17 schools across this tiny country, all ⑨_ _ developing a healthy balance of characteristics in both sexes. Girls and boys are separated to allow girls to ⑩_ _ traditionally viewed as masculine, like being bold, independent, and taking risks. And boys are given time to ⑪__ _ traditionally viewed as ⑫_, like being more ⑬_, ⑭__, and ⑮_. And the signs are that this is working. Research suggests that in later years children from this school have a greater understanding of gender equality ⑯_ _ _ children from other schools.

    focused on, nuture…,learn trites?, feminism, pathetic, caring,…
    when comparing to

    “There is nothing like a quick fix to this huge inequality in the world. But if we all do a little bit here and there and there. Yes, then at last we will get some results.

    Iceland is also ⑰_ gender equality by encouraging fathers to share the ⑱_ _ with mothers. In 2000, it introduced what is known as a Daddy Quota. Three months’ Statutory ⑲_ _.
    promoting, childcare burden, paternatiy leave

    It’s an ⑳_ that goes much further than most other countries in the world.
    allowance
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    Here over 70% of fathers take up the full three months’ leave. Why? Because the state covers 80% of a salary during this period, ①_. One beneficiary of this generous system is Igor Bianason, who’s looking after his son Vala. Igor believes the high cost of the Daddy Quota to taxpayers is justified because it helps get more women into work.

    up to .a cap of 4600 dollars a month

    “Imagine you were hiring someone for a new position. You had applicants from a man and a woman. You would be much less likely to take into the equation that the woman who could have a child in the future and go on a leave because the man is also going to do that. So it does create a more equal field out there.”

    But even in Iceland, ②_. This year, Iceland became the first country in the world to ③_. Companies with over 25 employees, like Reykjavik Energy, ④_.

    men are still nearly paid 60% more than women for a similar work
    pass the regulation not just to expose but to tackle the problems
    have to prove they are paying women and men equally for similiar jobs
    Every job with the company ⑤_. This produces a score. For jobs with the same score workers must be paid the same. When Reykjavik energy used this pay calculator, ⑥_.

    must be measured to a set of criteria
    the ineuquailty came into sharp and immediate focus

    “We noticed that there was a pay gap there between the unskilled workers that were outside and the unskilled workers inside. The outside unskilled workers are mainly men and the unskilled workers inside that’s the cleaning staff, the staff in the kitchen, that’s the mostly women. What’s important to keep in mind is the gender pay gap. It’s not there because there’s a couple of evil men making decisions to pay women less. It’s this unconscious bias that we all have. ⑦_.”

    we place more value on traditionally male dominated jobs

    The company rectified this by raising the wages of its female employees. Critics of the law point out ⑧_. But many argue this is a necessary price to pay.

    there will be significant financial concequencies for companies as they rectify their paying inequalities.

    “It’s a human rights issue, isn’t it? Paying the same wage for equally valuable jobs. Having a law that requires company to have this, ⑨_.

    it makes everybody comfortable

    ⑩_. Could the ambitious measures being tested in Iceland provide practical solutions?

    gender equality would be ever more challenging for more wealthier countries across the world