Bjork has discussed what she views as Iceland's superior progress in gender equality in a new interview, saying, "I come from a generation in Iceland where we don't really have misogyny."
Bjork released her ninth album, Vulnicura, back in January, and during its press campaign she told Pitchfork: “I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: ‘You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
"Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.’ After being the only girl in bands for 10 years, I learned – the hard way – that if I was going to get my ideas through, I was going to have to pretend that they – men – had the ideas. I have to play stupid and just do everything with five times the amount of energy, and then it will come through.”
In a new interview with The Guardian, she was keen to exempt her native country from this indictment. “I come from a generation in Iceland where we don’t really have misogyny," she said, "and I think maybe that’s something I haven’t talked enough about. Everybody’s kind of equal. We do have problems like lower pay for women, but only a bit. But we had the first female president, first female prime minister, these things are not a coincidence."
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Before you book your flights and start looking for housing in this utopian society though, Bjork did admit that the current right wing government was less than ideal: "They are a crazy insane government, just doing everything horribly wrong. Going back to what it was before the bank crash, but five times worse. All the changes that the left made – and I’m not for a minute saying that I’m left, I don’t see myself as left or right – but in five minutes they’ve gone back and privatised everything. So we’ve been hoping there’ll be another revolution to get them out."
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