https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Norway has been ranked the least progressive Nordic country in a new world ranking of attitudes towards gender equality. https://www.thelocal.no/20151112/norway-worst-in-nordics-for-gender-attitudes Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:47:17 +0100 norway-worst-in-nordics-for-gender-attitudes The feminist group Stop Porn Culture has planted fake tabloid newspapers plastered with near-naked men and women on newsstands across Norway, in a protest at "the porn culture in the mass media". https://www.thelocal.no/20140306/anti-porn-group-plants-nude-pic-tabloid-on-stands Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:52:00 +0100 anti-porn-group-plants-nude-pic-tabloid-on-stands It took a photo to drive it home. The ministers controlling the armed forces of four of Europe's countries are now women. https://www.thelocal.no/20140203/things-are-changing-four-defence-ministers Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:26:00 +0100 things-are-changing-four-defence-ministers Norway's equality minister has declared that she is opposed to gender quotas or affirmative action designed at increasing equality for women in the workplace, although she stressed she would not seek to rewrite Norway's existing rules. https://www.thelocal.no/20140131/im-opposed-to-any-quotas-says-norways-equality-minister Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:29:00 +0100 im-opposed-to-any-quotas-says-norways-equality-minister The Progress Party has called for a victorious centre-right coalition to remove Norway's quota for women on company boards. https://www.thelocal.no/20130812/jensen-to-scrap-womens-quota-on-company-boards Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:58:00 +0200 jensen-to-scrap-womens-quota-on-company-boards