Guardian.UK: Why Iceland is the best place in the world to be a woman. October 24, 2016 by Garret Vreeland in Human Rights, Law, Politics, Travel By 1975, Icelandic women were fed up. It wasn’t just that they weren’t being properly paid for their labour, they also were sick of their lack of political representation: only nine women had ever won seats in parliament. So, against the backdrop of the global feminist movement, Iceland’s women decided to take things into their own hands.