It's a great time to be a woman... in Iceland. Here are three reasons why.
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00:30Well, I guess that's one of the fundamental reasons why we need this law is because it's
00:42not something that you can easily feel or see.
00:45Well, you can have maybe a feeling for it, but it's very hard to prove.
01:15The issues that concern women specifically are always the last to be considered and we,
01:27like in this country, we were getting very impatient.
01:29We cannot wait for daycare centers anymore.
01:32We cannot wait for longer maternity leave anymore.
01:35We cannot wait to have a similar pay on the labor market as men anymore.
01:39So if men are not going to do it, we simply have to do it ourselves.
01:45When I realized that this seemed so important in the world, that a woman should be elected
02:09as President of Iceland, it opened my eyes and I became a feminist.