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In 2017 she modelled again, for a new Icelandic brand. [ 8 ] Heiða became involved in environmental politics fighting plans to construct a hydro-electric plant which would involve damming the river and flooding much of her farm.
In 2017 the Daughters were asked to put up a show at the Reykjavík City Theatre. It could be anything they wanted. With the diverse background of the girls they came up with "RVKDTR THE SHOW" a performance where they expressed their experience of being a 20-something woman in Iceland. It debuted in May 2017 and got good reviews.
45.5% of the Icelandic formal workforce was women in 2010. In the 2000s, just under 80% of Icelandic women were in formal employment, the highest rate in the OECD (about 86% of men were in formal employment). [44] [45] Rates of mothers in work are also high, perhaps due to high childcare coverage and generous parental leave policies. [46]
Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir (Old Norse: [ˈɡuðˌruːn ˈoːsˌwiːvz̠sˌdoːtːez̠]; Modern Icelandic: Guðrún Ósvífursdóttir [ˈkvʏðˌruːn ˈousˌviːvʏr̥sˌtouhtɪr̥]; 10th century – 11th century), was an Icelandic woman who was famed for her great wisdom and beauty. She was married four times.
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Hallgerðr Höskuldsdóttir was a 10th-century Icelandic woman and is a major character in Njáls saga. According to Landnámabók, she was the daughter of Höskuld Dala-Kollson and the sister or half-sister of Þorleikr, Olaf the Peacock, Helgi, Þúriðr and Þorgerðr. Her nickname there is snúinbrók (‘twisted breeches’). [1]
Ástandið (Icelandic: "the condition" or "the situation") is a term used in Iceland to refer to the influence Allied troops had on Icelandic women during the Second World War. At its peak the number of Allied soldiers equaled almost 50% of the native male population.
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