Tens of thousands of women across Iceland — including the prime minister — are expected to participate in a one-day strike Tuesday in protest of the ongoing gender pay gap and gender-based violence.

Iceland is marking the 50th anniversary of the landmark "Women's Day Off" strike, a protest that helped launch a global movement for gender equality, with another women's strike. On October 24, 1975, ...

The World Economic Forum ranked the US as 49th, but some countries, like Iceland, are making impressive strides to close the gender gap. The World Economic Forum recently published its annual report ...

Imagine bringing up children in the world’s most gender equal society, which – perhaps relatedly – is the third-happiest place on the planet, just behind Finland and Denmark? It’s enough to make me ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In today’s political climate there are more reasons than ever to take to the streets and protest, but it can be disheartening when ...

The Canadian-born first lady is such a keen advocate of her adopted country and its progressive gender politics that she’s writing books about it. As guests nibbled on Icelandic lamb and sipped ...

Iceland has been ranked first in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index for the ninth year in a row. But what is their secret to this success in the gender struggle? A look at the history ...

On Jan. 1, Iceland made it illegal to pay men more than women—an inequality that exists (with respect to average gross hourly and annual income) in almost every nation. This legislation made the ...

More women are attending university than ever before and a quarter of the world’s top universities have appointed a female president, but research shows that female academics are being pushed out of ...

In today’s political climate there are more reasons than ever to take to the streets and protest, but it can be disheartening when organized action doesn’t immediately achieve desired change. What ...