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In the 'Nordic paradox', high rates of gender equality does not equal safety for women - Magpie - Jul 24 2025
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-19/why-nordic-paradox-means-womens-equality-doesnt-equal-safety/103842754
Quote:For 14 years, the small Nordic nation of Iceland has topped the World Economic Forum gender-gap rankings, considered to have closed 91.2 per cent of the male-female divide.
The survey considers the gender gap on four metrics: health, education and political empowerment and economic participation.
But statistics on violence in the country, paint a vastly different portrait of the nation's treatment of women.
About 40 per cent of Icelandic women experience gender-based and sexual violence in their lifetime, according to a landmark 2018 study by the University of Iceland.
Further in the article:
Quote:Many in the field accept there are challenges with comparing and collecting data, but repeated studies have shown rates of violence are higher than other European countries.
RE: In the 'Nordic paradox', high rates of gender equality does not equal safety for w... - Impress Polly - Jul 24 2025
Still think equality with moids is possible? When greater educational attainment, more economic equality, and higher levels of political representation all translate into higher rates of rape and battery of women and girls, it's called male resentment. Resentment that you demanded equality.
The only possible way women can escape this paradox is by physically separating themselves from men.
RE: In the 'Nordic paradox', high rates of gender equality does not equal safety for w... - Magpie - Jul 25 2025
(Jul 24 2025, 6:47 PM)Impress Polly Still think equality with moids is possible? When greater educational attainment, more economic equality, and higher levels of political representation all translate into higher rates of rape and battery of women and girls, it's called male resentment. Resentment that you demanded equality.
The only possible way women can escape this paradox is by physically separating themselves from men.
If you're asking me, then no, I don't. I think that defining feminism as being about equality of the sexes rather than female liberation was a mistake. You can't have equality with a class of people that are actively oppressing and exploiting you.
Even if I didn't already think so beforehand, it's pretty hard to come to any other conclusion after reading that article. The most powerful people in Iceland are all female, yet it clearly doesn't translate into the same amount of power for women overall as all the powerful positions being filled by men does for men overall.