Bella Forsgren and Sanna Marin encourage diversity in Finland's public life.
FINLAND’S PRIME MINISTER AND THE EQUALITY PROGRAMME “We must all be focused on how we can make the program a reality,” Finland’s new and youngest ever Prime Minister, Sanna Marin said recently, “This is my mission.” What program was she talking about? The Equality Program that will help improve the position of racial minorities. “Our backgrounds still affect the possibilities that we have in life and that should not be the case,” she added. She feels that it is “a job for all Finns.” Finland’s coalition government headed by five women began work almost one year ago. It is drafting a new and “ambitious equality program” having “dealt efficiently with the coronavirus pandemic.” The government meets behind closed doors at Finland’s House of Estates, a Renaissance building. In December 2019 Sanna Marin began her new job as “Finland’s new and youngest prime minister.” She headed a five-party center-left coalition government – the members were all women . “Feminism...