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      Katrin Jakobsdottir

      Iceland Becomes First Country to Punish Companies for Paying Women Less Than Men

      "In Iceland, an example of what happens if you actually elect women."

      Julia Conley
      Jan 02, 2018

      Iceland began the new year by becoming the first country in the world to mandate that all its companies must pay men and women equally. Following years of passing legislation promoting equal pay, employers that fail to ensure pay parity will now be subject to fines, thanks to a law passed last spring that went into effect Monday.

      "We have had legislation saying that pay should be equal for men and women for decades now but we still have a pay gap," Dagny Osk Aradottir Pind of the Icelandic Women's Rights Association toldAl Jazeera. "We have managed to raise awareness, and we have managed to get to the point that people realize that the legislation we have had in place is not working, and we need to do something more."

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