Gender equality

Finland

EQUALITY

Nominations open for the Finnish International Gender Equality Prize

The Nomad Today 3/13/21

The prize amounts to 300,000 euros and will be awarded to a person or actor who has promoted gender equality in a globally significant way.

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EU INDEX

Finland again ranks below France, Denmark, Sweden in gender equality

The Nomad Today 10/30/20

Sweden holds the top place and Denmark comes second. France maintained its ranking from last year as the third best.

World

Berlin Film Festival to make acting prizes gender neutral next year

The Nomad Today 8/25/20

Despite the pandemic, the Berlinale is going to take place "as a physical event" in February 2021, the organizers said.

World

Poland plans to leave domestic violence treaty, blames gender ideology

The Nomad Today 7/28/20

The Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro, said Poland is one of the countries that provides the best standards of protection to victims of domestic violence, better than those included in the…

Lifestyle

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

EU report laments lack of progress on gender equality

The Nomad Today 6/22/20

The gender gap in employment had generally decreased between 2004 and 2014, but it widened again over the past 5 years.

Lifestyle

International Women's Day

Only 1 manager out of 3 in the EU is a woman

The Nomad Today 3/8/20

Finland is below the EU average, according to Eurostat.

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New Finnish traffic signs, clearer and genderless

The Nomad Today 2/26/20

50 new signs will be introduced on 1 June. Continuous yellow solid lines will also disappear from the roads.

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Preparation of equal pay program interrupted due to lack of consensus

The Nomad Today 2/13/20

The Government and social agents were unable to agree on how to narrow the gender pay gap.

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UN Women Executive Director will discuss women’s rights in Finland

The Nomad Today 1/31/20

Finland will chair the Executive Board of UN Women in 2020.

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Finland's Gender Equality award to an NGO that changed discriminatory laws worldwide

The Nomad Today 12/2/19

The organization also managed to change attitudes towards female genital mutilation and child marriages, and as a result, more and more people disapprove of these practices.

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Finland ranked fourth in EU gender equality comparison

The Nomad Today 10/15/19

The index measures the state of gender equality in six domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power and health.

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High-level conference on gender equality in Helsinki

The Nomad Today 9/25/19

Participants will discuss from different perspectives the links between gender equality, sustainable development and economic growth.

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Finland Budget 2020: Government decisions to reduce inequality

The Nomad Today 9/22/19

2020 will bring changes in social policies: from increases in pensions and aid to the most disadvantaged to the dismantling of the so-called activation model, which cut unemployment benefits for…

Finland

Finland’s human rights policy to be updated

The Nomad Today 8/28/19

Last global trends such as migration, environmental change, advancing technologies and security issues challenge the functioning of the international human rights system. Develop links between human…

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How has gender equality shaped Finland?

The Nomad Today 5/17/19

Finland was the first country to grant full political rights to women in 1906. For more than 100 years women have had active roles in working life and decision making. Learn more about the history…