Norway smashes the glass ceiling
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Are Norway's tough methods to push women beyond the glass ceiling the best way to change corporate culture, asks the BBC's Stephanie Holmes.
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NAIROBI Wangari Maathai has been clubbed in the head by riot policemen. She has been denounced as a subversive. Her efforts for women&#39;s rights in a country where men run the show have long been considered quixotic at best.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 13 (IPS) - Inequalities between men and women are not  adequately addressed in aid programmes for countries of the  former Soviet Union, a new study has concluded.
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HELSINKI (BBC NEws) - Police and border guards in Finland have dismantled a prostitution ring run from the city of St Petersburg in neighboring Russia, officials say. They said about 150 women, most of them from Russia, worked as prostitutes in Finnish hotels in about 20 cities. The ring also provided prostitutes for Britain and Norway, police said.  Prostitution is legal in Finland (as in much of the rest of Europe), but procurement, or pimping, is illegal. Human trafficking was also outlawed by Finland's parliament in 2004.
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Ivar Bjornson and Grutle Kjellson of the extreme metal band Enslaved are rock stars, more or less, in Norway, but they are decidedly underground figures in most of the rest of the world.
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The Scandinavian nation spends a lot in R&#38;D, which has kept them buoyant. Next: Finland wants to move into clean tech.
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Norway's center-right government presented a draft 2005 budget that contained a comfortable surplus thanks to the country's massive energy resources.
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The women of France agree electing a  female president would be a giant step forward for a nation  which has treated career women poorly.
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OSLO, Norway - November in Norway is full of hazards. Ice-slicked streets, moose on the roads and fierce cold.
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Ella Gjomle and Marit Bjorgen led Norway to victory Sunday in World Cup cross-country ski racing.
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Good looks can help win elections, especially for women, research by Nordic economists suggests.
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"The wells were not production-tested, but extensive data collection and sampling were carried out"  OSLO, Norway: Norsk Hydro ASA struck oil and natural gas reserves about 120 kilometers off the western Norway city of Bergen, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate announced Monday. via International Herald Tribune
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MOSCOW, Nov 5 (IPS) - Several women leaders are hoping for a higher  representation in parliament after the Dec. 2 elections than the  present 10 percent.
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The annual survey of education by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shows that among persons aged 25-34 Norway now has the highest percentage with an education comparable with a four-year college education or more.
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WASHINGTON, Sep 29 (IPS) - Predominantly foreign male workers who relocated to  build massive oil and gas projects, combined with feeble gender  policies, have brought prostitution, human trafficking, poverty,  HIV/AIDS and greater burdens for local communities around those  projects, new research finds.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel tops a list of the most powerful women in the world for the second year.
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PARIS, Nov 17 (IPS) - The extraordinary triumph of SÃ©golÃ¨ne Royal in the  Socialist Party's primaries for France's April 2007  presidential elections reflects the growing global trend in which  women have become fundamental actors in shaping the destinies of  their nations.