My last name makes it pretty obvious that I’m Norwegian, though it’s missing an h or two. Three things happened this week that inspired me to more passionately identify with being Norwegian:
- Norway’s parliament members overwhelmingly voted (84 to 41) for gay marriage this week
- I watch these lions (living in Norway) every day. They sometimes remind me of Spike, my cat who died in 2004, and sometimes the mama lion’s routine of sleep, clean the babies, feed the babies, sleep reminds me of taking care of my daughter when she was a baby.
- Norway has progressive legislation that has increased the number of women on corporate boards (“public limited companies”) according to this article Norway’s big stick for getting women on boards:
And the result? Statistics Norway revealed that by February 19, 39 per cent of the board representatives in public limited companies were women. Ninety-three per cent of the 459 public limited companies had met the requirements of representation of both sexes laid down in the Public Limited Companies Act.
