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We are often bombarded with fear-mongering and shocking headlines that make us feel that the world is falling apart.

However, while it’s important to report on problems and issues, I believe there is so much good in this world that it needs to be found and promoted just as widely.

Because of that, I started The Happy Broadcast. It's an anti-venom to the vitriolic rhetoric that pervades our media. Also, this year, I’ve illustrated even more happy news than in 2018.

We need more positive news to acknowledge that the world is actually getting better little by little.

More info: Instagram

When I'm working on The Happy Broadcast, I try to pick news that has an international appeal and touches themes like animal rights, climate change and science. News that shows how much we’re progressing on many fronts despite being often bombarded with few-mongering headlines.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am so happy for their victory, but just find it bonkers that an indigenous tribe had to fight a legal battle to protect their land in the first place.

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I think there are many reasons why negative news is dominating the media. It's like a sudden disaster a, it's more compelling than, for example, little improvements. Bad things can happen quickly, but good things aren’t built in a day, and as they unfold, they're out of sync with the news cycle.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This must make many people happy due to one act. Lovely initiative.

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As humans, we have this thing called “negative bias” that make us respond quicker to bad or dangerous situations. Nowadays, this bias is getting in the way of our happiness and well-being, and even our productivity because most of the narrative surrounding us (print, online or mobile) is that the “world is ending".

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hopefully supermarkets worldwide can implement more eco friendly alternatives also.

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More funding is needed for stem cell research. They have already discovered some incredible ways stem cells can help with paralysis and other movement disorders etc. Imagine what else they can discover.

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I think we should find a balance between negative and positive news. From politics to climate change and economy, negative and bad news surrounds us everywhere we go. A potential solution could be to limit the amount of bad news, basically slow down our personal news cycle, adding some positive news to our “news diet” to make sure that our outlook on the world is more optimistic. Also, it's very important to invest time to deal with misinformation and the reliability of news sources.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hm, I think Sweden must have forgot to apply then. We dont have stray dogs, at least for decades. Any lost dog gets collected, if no owner is found it gets adopted via Animal Protection. I have seen one or two lost dogs, where we found the owner, but never a genuine stray.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Steps like these show the power of the State in achieving large scale sustainable results if there is a will.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

SOOOO not against this! But....shouldn't it be equal pay for equal skill? (meaning, no race, gender, age, or any discrimination at all!) If you have more skill in the task, you get paid more, if you have less you get paid less. Plain and simple (yet I know it is more difficult to prove wrong-doing that way too)

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Nia Loves Art
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People don’t get paid based on skill they get payed based on position, which in theory correlates with skill.

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Chynna Burton
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are you kidding, Australia has had am equal pay legislation since 1969

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We might have enacted that but it is still not really enforced. Men make higher wages than women all over the place.

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Russell Johns
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I call bull s**t on this one, there are lots of countries that have done that, including my own

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unless you're an athlete or an actor, you will have the same salary as another gender or you can pretty much ready up for a lawsuit. "Pay gaps" are still existent because women tend to care for their children far more than men are, meaning there will be a loss of salary/raise/promotion. Iceland simply tries to even-out both sides and that's something no country has ever done. Is it necessary ? That's up to them to tell us in a few years.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even when your taking the same exact job..if she takes off personal time for x,y,z...why should she get the same pay as the man that shows up and does the job...if anything men should get the same amount of personal time off as women

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

exactly. Especially that maternity leaves make her co-workers work more to cover for her, quite often. Alternativelly, employer has to put money into getting a new person on-board.

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Louise Stange-Wahl
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ABOUT TIME! I was a middle-manager computer department boss at a major company (back in the 80s) and I found out that the male peeps made almost 30% more than me. I questioned it and they said "Well they have families!" I went to HR about it and they didn't do anything. When I went in and reported it to the government office, it was changed! I was the first brave woman who did that...what is WRONG is WRONG!

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Martin Markovic
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What does this mean? ain't people suposed to be payed equaly regarding their skill and effort, not gender?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. And they do in the US. Don't let the leftists fool you with bad data.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know women who work the same jobs as men and make more than the men. In different fields too

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And you can probably count the number of them on one hand. As compared to the countless number of men in the same situation. ****Re: Stefan Petrov’s ludicrous suggestion below, that companies wanting to save money should hire women because they work for less. Quit talking out your sphincter; you’re not as clever as you think you are. That scenario already exists; only they’re called sweatshops and they’re illegal. They employ impoverished women and children in third world countries, and primarily female immigrants supplied by human traffickers in the developed world—-including the US and European countries—-steal their passports and money, keep them from contacting their families, work them til they drop, deny them medical attention when needed, then abandon them, send them back where they came from worse off than when they left, or in extreme cases kill them off before the fresh batch arrive. Next time, think a little deeper before you present your ideas.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not sure what Iceland has done differently (I'm happy to learn just not have the time right now, feel free to educate me) but I'm fairly certain that many countries have had this law for ages (as my own country - the Czech Republic). The issue is more about enforcing this law. No matter what - it's definitely a step in a good direction.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Australia has had the legislation equal pay for equal work since 1969 and Anti-discrimination laws based on sex was introduced in 1984.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly the loopholes : Women just don't get promoted to the highest positions. 2 "Womens' " work gets renamed. example, nurses are still nearly all women. the men in nursing tend to be in the highest paid jobs.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This artical obviously referencing the 'Wage Gap'. People would do well to actually look at the studies and dig a little bit, the 70 cents for every dollar stat is based on studies on the gross life time earning by gender, they are NOT a study of Sally makes $14 and Tim makes $20 an hour. The difference is primarily do to time off for child rearing and a quirk that females tend towards careers that make less (not my opinion, just the numbers) more female Nurses and teachers for example. Whether those careers should make less could be a debate for sure. This idea is even debunked by some feminist organisations because its misleading. I am sure wage gaps are a thing in some places but people have tried and we can't currently prove that beyond the anecdotal stage as there to many variables, my opinion is one could likely argue and prove that age has a larger factor than gender, much less skill and competence.

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Christina Ciccarelli
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

what hogwash, equal pay has been a thing in the us for ages, equal pay for EQUAL WORK - but because women don't do the high paying dangerous jobs that men do, it looks like inequality.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and yet women and men are payed the same for the same job in every single modern country I've lived in. Virtue signaling gets you no where

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...which is just an empty promise. In most countries, men and women earn more or less the same if all circumstances except for gender are the same; however, it's mostly personal choices which result in an overall difference. Oh, and the US has the equal pay act since the 1960s.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Human beings do not respect nature and ALL life it supports, therefore do not respect each other. "Do not fancy that you will lower yourselves by sympathy with the lower creatures; you CANNOT sympathize RIGHTLY with the higher, unless you do with those." - John Ruskin, English essayist, critic, and reformer (1819 - 19000

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is not equal pay, it is equal earnings... Basic economics and understanding of how we humans work shows a difference in earnings. Equal pay is legal in most western counties regardless, and if not it is used because common sense makes it. I wish the "gender pay gap" myth will die for the western counties. Onlu true in parts of Africa, middle east, parts of Asia etc.

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Kimlan Lau
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some of my own peers have a problem with the term 'equal rights' for men and women. Is there anyone that understands this or shares that view? I honestly don't get it.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Men have more opportunities for work more and this means longer hours away from home and family, more stress, higher rates of heart attacks, suicide, depression, and a sharp decline in life expectancy for the gender as a whole. Women would like in on that as it means a bump in pay. All anyone talks about is the money and not what comes with it.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is not necessarily a good thing, at least in the U.S., studies already debunked the wage gap myth and found that it was more based on performance, life choices, choice of carrier and assertiveness. Some jobs women even disproportionally made more than men. The wage gap myth said "same exact job" but it turns out that was not true at all, not everyone who works at McDonalds has the same "job" too. Though if things are different for Iceland then that's a whole other story.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not true. America made this the law in 1965. Oh! You mean equal payment for different hours in different job? You could have just said that to avoid being a pseudo-journalist hack spreading slander against the male sex that's purely intended to inflame hatred.

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Richard Jones
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They should also enforce equal productivity requirements. it is frustrating to see laws demanding someone is paid the same as another, while not having the capability of the physical demands of a physically intensive position to equal productivity or product output, while hypocritically receiving legal compensation protection.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Legal pay is already enforced and a las in the united states. You can sue companies if they are openly paying men more then women or vice versa. There is not “equal pay” because it does not account for the fact that less women have jobs, less hours worked, or jobs/positions. It is simply a statistic, no company has different salary for women $ men, nor does the military

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The equal pay act of 1963 in the united states has existed for over 40 years. This is a L I E .

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Gage Collier
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The united states literally has had a law about this for over 40 years. The equal pay act of 1963.

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William Thorp
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm all for equality but to force it? That gets the government into your business and we don't want that.

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Christina Uhlir
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

William, if people behaved in a responsible, ethical manner, there would be no need for laws and regulations.

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Kim
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think people should get paid equal to the amount of work they do

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well recent studies have shown that one of the biggest reasons men in America are being paid more then women is because men are naturally more bold and confident, so they will ask for raises more frequently then women. There is a gap but if women gained some more confidence the they might get paid the same. And some women do which is awesome. But it's just fact that if you are good at your job and you are confident enough to ask for more raises, then you will get paid more then someone who is just as skilled but lacks confidence. If you take gender out it is still about skill and confidence, not man or woman.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No true. Australia introduced it in 1964. Other countries have too.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Several other countries already had that law I believe. No one should be paid less for same work being done is already a thing just saying. That will definitly cause a furore on the fashion market where men are paid at least eight times less than women models. Just saying.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Western feminists like to complain about the "wage gap" but never when it benefits them, such as when Google was discovered to be paying its female engineers a higher wage than their male co-workers of equal responsibility. Ironically, it was a lawsuit by female employees claiming Google was discriminating against female employees that made Google reveal its data to show that they were actually paying women more than men. Anyway, many countries, such as America, have already been paying women the same wages as men, despite how in most cases, they do much less work and take more time off. In the many jobs I had before settling with my current career, it was always my female co-workers relying on men to do the "hard" work so why should they be entitled to raises? Promotions? Work harder, ladies, and you'll find yourself being recognized and rewarded more often. As for Iceland and its law, it's one of the countries that is really late to enforce equal pay.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

1. The US has several equal pay laws 2. According to studies by the (private feminist organization) American Association of University Women and the (government agency) Bureau of Labor Statistics show that men and women make pretty much the same after controlling for things like job choice, experience, education, etc... It's just not common knowledge because sensationalist media like this website keep propagating misinformation and suckers buy into it without exercising a healthy level of skepticism I know most people won't read these but in case you want to, you can find the numbers in the conclusion sections: https://www.aauw.org/files/2013/02/graduating-to-a-pay-gap-the-earnings-of-women-and-men-one-year-after-college-graduation.pdf https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/public-policy/hr-public-policy-issues/Documents/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

1. The US has several of these laws 2. According to studies by the (private feminist organization) American Association of University Women and the (government agency) Bureau of Labor Statistics show that men and women make pretty much the same after controlling for things like job choice, experience, education, etc... It's just not common knowledge because sensationalist media like this website keep propagating misinformation and suckers buy into it without exercising a healthy level of skepticism I know most people won't read these but in case you want to, you can find the numbers in the conclusion sections: https://www.aauw.org/files/2013/02/graduating-to-a-pay-gap-the-earnings-of-women-and-men-one-year-after-college-graduation.pdf https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/public-policy/hr-public-policy-issues/Documents/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Australia, the principle of "equal pay for equal work" was introduced in 1969. Anti-discrimination on the basis of sex was legislated in 1984. (from Wiki)

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Daniel Cristián
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This actually makes it seem like other countries willfully pay women less, which is a lie.

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Lasse Norén
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Equal Pay Act - which wakes in illegal to pay men and women different wages for doing the same job - was introduced in 1963 in the USA. Sorry Iceland, you are a bit late to the party.

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Shart
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But how do you say both jobs are equal..take an actor.. should milly bobby brown be paid the same as tom cruise..both do the same job

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So dumb. Maybe it's different there but in the US the pay gap is a myth.

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Vanities
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Umm. This has been the law in the states for 50 years. Welcome to the modern age.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where I work, women who apply for jobs set their salary expectations way lower than the average men, but as we believe in equal pay these women also get a nice surprise when their offers way exceed their expectations. I assume they ask for less as they get paid less elsewhere, but I also wonder if there are other factors why men ask for more money.

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Kathy Baylis
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can give you a big factor in it, and one I have personal experience with. Men are encouraged to be aggressive in business, while women aren’t; we’re supposed to be gentle and motherly (yeah, it’s archaic and it sucks, but it still happens). The men are considered mavericks, but the women are called bitches—-for the same behavior. If a man pushes for more pay when applying for a job, he’ll probably get hired at the rate he asks for. A woman doing the same will probably not even be offered the job in the first place.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What have they done differently to all the other countries where this is illegal?

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Kathy Baylis
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mandated transparency. I believe all companies there have to assign specific salaries and requirements for each position, then report employee earnings—-and I mean backing it up with payroll records, so no opportunity to falsify them—-to their government’s labor department (however it’s named or designated). They probably get randomly audited up the wazoo too, so honesty ends up being considered the best policy.

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Jo Choto
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the many reasons Iceland is one of my favorite places on earth.

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Chris Chen
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I beg to differ. China has already done it in the 90s. Both the Constitution (1982)(Article 48) and the law of Labor (1994)(Article 56) have legally enforced equal pay for women and men.

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Renée Guercia
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well this is wonderful and about time, now lets get the rest of the world on board!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The FlipSide: All tennis tournaments in Iceland will need to require women to play best of 5 sets. Biggest hypocrisy in this arena.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is even better they have a holiday where you just give books and chocolate, of course.!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think we should find a balance between negative and positive news. From politics to climate change and economy, negative and bad news surrounds us everywhere we go. A potential solution could be to limit the amount of bad news, basically slow down our personal news cycle, adding some positive news to our “news diet” to make sure that our outlook on the world is more optimistic. Also, it's very important to invest time to deal with misinformation and the reliability of news sources.

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Gareth Tyler
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is complete sh*t. I love this article but this point is moot. Many countries have a law that make it illegal to pay women and men differently. It's been the law in the UK since the 80's.

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Phil Sylvester
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Australia, the principle of "equal pay for equal work" was introduced in 1969. Anti-discrimination on the basis of sex was legislated in 1984. (source: wiki)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In other words, daddies are going to tend to their children/babies just like mommies are. If you think it's about inequality of salary you are wrong and missing the point of the whole "pay gap" issue.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

41% of parliamentarians in Iceland are women, and 65% of university students too.

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Maciej Krupiński
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In 30 years' time, we will look at this and think: "Man, the world was so r******d back in 2019".

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Tim Stott
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this also the case with professions where the revenue generated governs the pay...eg professional sports?

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Felicity Haynes
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought they already had done this in Sweden!! But perhaps it was just Stockholm!

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Diane Bolter-Hassien
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, where I work, you get paid by rank and and more depending wheter you have a college degree, Masters or PHd

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's legaally enforced almost Everywhere. It is a crime to discriminate by gender in most western countrys. This goal has been already achieved. I mean think about it, if companies can really get away with paying less to women, than why don't every company just use women instead of all the men? Cause they can not and do not pay less for the same work to woman.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not legally enforced. There is legislation but it's not enforced. In Iceland it is, companies are required to submit data on employer wages to external auditors and those who are not found to be paying their staff equally risk a fine. Elsewhere the onus is not on the employer, it's on the employee who a) doesn't have access to information on staff wages and b) probably doesn't want to risk their job by accusing their employer of pay discrimination.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This requires transparency and it has no culture in most of the EU countries.

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Elizabeth Gardner
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

YES! again sanity prevails. A woman does a job she gets the same as a man doing the job What on earth is the difference this never made sense to me that they should have two sets of pay. Why? a job is a job does not matter who does it pay is the same regardless.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

God bless Iceland for doing the right thing.👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏🏼💕

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In a totally male construct - ie; having to "go to work". Women don't like to leave their families everyday like men do. Men designed the construct because it suits them, because they get away from the noise of family.

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Monika Soffronow
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

THANK YOU! Thank you so much, to ALL OF YOU GUYS who have decided to MANSPLAIN THAT NO GENDER PAY GAP really exists. Ooooh, you are soooo smart. (Sorry, I have to puke)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyone claiming that their country has had this in place for ages and is way ahead of Iceland is dead set wrong. Pretty much every country has legislation that says it's illegal to discriminate on gender when it comes to pay but it doesn't mean jack given it's up to the employee to identify the discrepancy and take it to court. Given salaries are usually kept confidential and most people would not be willing to risk their jobs like this the legislation is pretty much worthless. What Iceland has done is legally enforce it, it means companies with more than 25 staff are required to obtain equal pay certification from accredited auditors and can be fined if they don't meet the requirements.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been to Iceland, and in my limited experience it almost appeared as though your average Icelandic woman could kick your average Icelandic man's a*s down the street, so there's that.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is disgusting in this day and age that there is still a marked difference between pay scales for men and women. If they do the same job, they should be paid the same.

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Lynne Stankard
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At Last!!!!! Only taken Y E A R S, but one country has made the stand - hurray! xx

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, I can't adequately express how 'effing overdue this is in EVERY country in the WORLD!

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Laura Baldwin
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Finally, equality at last. No reason why other countries can do this.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now HOW HARD WAS THAT? Iceland also jailed its crooked bankers, liquidated crooked banks, the nation took a financial hit for four years and is now healthier than ever -- and bankers realize there are consequences... in Iceland. In the U.S.? Not so much.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah that will entice companies to hire more women . . . NOT!

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Tons of countries have this law, Iceland is just the first to administer government agencies to make sure large companies are following through. I have mixed feelings about this for a variety of reasons. One, how do you quantify someone's "value" in what they do? Some people are just better than others at the same job. Now you have to worry that you pay your star employee a bit more if they are male. Also, the gender pay gap (in study after study after study) is amazingly small. That only makes sense since if women were cheaper to hire, then why the f**k would a greedy-a*s corporation hire any men? They value money over gender. Anyhoo, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Equal opportunities employer here. If you need three people to do the same basic job the person specs and job description will be the same and the salary grade/scale the employees will be on is the same. Each role is allocated a grade and is nothing to do with the person. Performance would be discussed in annual appraisals and any lesser performers would be expected to up their game. The 'star' performer just gets kudos or maybe an extra increment on the pay scale if they are really worth it. The grading of the job can only be altered if the job description and person specification needs to change to reflect an increase in responsibilities that have been identified. All of it is very rigidly laid out and no-one gets pay rises based on a whim or because of who you know. You go up the payscale within the grade you are on. Once you reach the top of that scale you either accept that you won't get annual incremental pay rises anymore or you look for another job.

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This is a great contrast to all the negativity we hear about women's value in India.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you, thank you, thank you! The bees thank you, and I thank you.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have always hated circuses. Even when I was so young I did not have the words to explain why I was crying. So good to see this!!!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll believe it when I see it. There have been stories of oil eating bacteria, and all sorts of magical things that eat the bad stuff. I hope to see it, but until then....

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is fantastic. Sooooo many people end up in jail or dead because we fail them as a society.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nairobi has a baby elephant orphanage. So I guess not. Of course, if they are brought up in the orphanage, which is by Nairobi National Park, then they are not sold to a zoo or circus.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's adorable. Not sure how something involving grown adults and the most massive terrestrial animals can be adorable, but somehow it is.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great for packaging! For almost everything else, not so much. But still a great step forward!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is brilliant! And this research has taken a very long time to bear fruit. Thank god for scientists ;p

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is great! This is what us grown ups need to do for the climate strike kids.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So wonderful to see compassion making the law. * cries just a bit *

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is definitely a good thing, but be careful to remember that fortnite is known for an especially toxic crunch culture. Employees are expected to work insane hours with no pay. Planting forests is good, but he should also be held responsible for the unfair and harmful working conditions his company creates.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The rabid, right-wingers still spewing their nonsense that renewables will drive prices up so high no one will be able to have electricity will not be noticing this development. The belief disconfirmation paradigm is too powerful for some people to overcome.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Glad to see them come back. Sad that they died out there in the first place.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ironic to place greenery on the exact place where ice and snow should be.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is nice, but it would be better if children being educated wasn’t contingent on their parents paying any sort of fee.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sweet! Now they just need to do something about the cattle ranchers.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*one of mathematics most prestigious awards. The Abel prize for mathematics. The most prestigious is the fields medal, was first (and so far only) won by a woman in 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe so but what research has been made to find out the effects seaweed has on the cows body. We already know that corn isn’t very good for them yet they are still fed a high corn diet in some countries (US particularly).

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Although the use of solar panels is green, many solar panel manufacturing processes are not. To create a solar panel, caustic materials will emit greenhouse gases. Plus less than 11% of each panel has salvageable metals so they're not very recyclable once they're usable life has expired. Most people aren't aware that the 'green' alternatives often aren't.

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