Norway's female MPs tell women to 'give a damn'; "Maybe women deserve men setting the agenda,"
Norway's female MPs tell women to 'give a damn'
'Maybe women deserve men setting the agenda," a conservative female politician said Friday as emotions ran high over a study that showed men know more about politics than women, and that the gender gap was wider in Norway than in comparable countries such as Australia.
"Men work full-time, they take responsibility at home, and they still keep up to date with the news. Maybe we then deserve to have men setting the agenda and political priorities," said Høyre party politician Heidi Nordby Lunde, who is number seven on the party's list for Oslo in the upcoming national elections to parliament,
The Local reported on Thursday that researchers in Bergen had taken part in a global study comparing men's and women's knowledge of politics. Despite having a high proportion of women in the work force and being seen as a Scandinavia equalty success tale, Norway's gender gap was wider than in other comparable countries, including Australia, Canada, Colombia, Greece, Italy, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and the US,
In Norway, men who took part in a QnA answered political questions correctly in 73 percent of the time. Women, on the other hand, only managed to answer just about half of the questions.
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