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This excellent book left me with ambivalent feelings. The women in the Nordic countries have progressed beyond their North American sisters in numerous aspects, but continue to suffer from much of the same discrimination and oppression. The early Canadian feminists believed gaining the rights to vote and to hold elected office would have far-reaching social benefits for women. Many of their expectations went unfulfilled. in the Nordic countries feel disappointment as well. Nonetheless, they have achieved much that we can envy and attempt to emulate. This valuable book is a collaboration by twenty Nordic women scholars studying political problems and issues involving women. It grew out of the Women in Politics working group in Berlin, in 1977. The eight well-researched chapters address such issues as women in organizations, elections, parliament and the corporate systems, as they vary from country to country. In addition they contemplate the questions of equality and the position of women in today's Nordic societies. They reach a sobering conclusion:
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