{"id":138495,"date":"2017-12-12T04:13:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T09:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138495"},"modified":"2017-12-12T04:13:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T09:13:53","slug":"iceland-closes-gender-gap-but-violence-against-women-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/12\/iceland-closes-gender-gap-but-violence-against-women-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland closes gender gap but violence against women remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_138508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138508\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/25286869_1739191759433734_1483355886_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138508\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/25286869_1739191759433734_1483355886_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"Icelanders are experiencing a stark realization: Equal representation does not, by default, eliminate gender-based violence. (Shutterstock)\" width=\"960\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/25286869_1739191759433734_1483355886_n-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/25286869_1739191759433734_1483355886_n-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/25286869_1739191759433734_1483355886_n-1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Icelanders are experiencing a stark realization: Equal representation does not, by default, eliminate gender-based violence. (Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>REYKJAVIK, Iceland \u2014 For nine years in a row, the World Economic Forum has ranked Iceland as having the world&#8217;s smallest gender-equality gap. It has a female prime minister and some of the world&#8217;s strongest laws on workplace equality and equal pay.<\/p>\n<p>It also has one of Europe&#8217;s highest per-capita levels of reported rapes, according to statistics agency Eurostat, although legal definitions differ from country to country, complicating comparisons.<\/p>\n<p>A 2010 University of Iceland study found that 30 per cent of Icelandic women aged 18 to 80 reported having been physically attacked by a man at least once, including 13 per cent who reported suffering rape or attempted rape.<\/p>\n<p>Icelanders are experiencing a stark realization: Equal representation does not, by default, eliminate gender-based violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REYKJAVIK, Iceland \u2014 For nine years in a row, the World Economic Forum has ranked Iceland as having the world&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":138508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[38498,3495],"class_list":["post-138495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-iceland-closes-gender-gap-but-violence-against-women-remains","tag-world-economic-forum","mauthors-egill-bjarnason","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}