05/11/2021 (Agence Europe) – On Friday 5 November, six MEPs from the European Parliament’s Gender Equality Committee (FEMM) returned after a few days in Reykjavik, where they met with the Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Icelandic MPs, academics, women’s organisations and others representing employers, trade unions and civil society. The aim of the visit was to learn about Iceland’s good practices in the fields of transparency and equal pay. In 2018, Iceland became the first country in the world to introduce a policy requiring organisations with more than 25 employees to prove that they pay men and women equally for work of equal value. MEPs and the EU Council are currently working on similar EU legislation (see EUROPE 12802/18). MEP Kira Peter-Hansen (Greens/EFA, Denmark), co-rapporteur on this dossier, was among the participants. (AC)