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Iceland institutes new laws to punish employers that don't pay women fairly.

“We have been fighting the gender pay gap for decades, we have tried everything,” Ms. Traustadóttir says. She says the most important principle behind the new law is to ensure equal pay for work of equal value.

The pay equity gap has resisted change for forty years - along with other even more serious consequences of discrimination - everywhere you care to look. Sexism is blamed again and again, but the problem seems impossible to resolve. The saying, " Doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results isn't sensible, " comes to mind. What also comes to mind is that isms - you know, ageism, sexism, racism ... - have been accepted as causes of unfair practices and attitudes.

Is this habit of categorizing blocking information? What could be missing? Each group is the target of pre-judgment - sweeping generalizations about groups of people without regard for facts or consideration for human rights. I also notice that each group has long fought to gain parity with those who treat them as second-class - but still haven't reached the goal. Could it boil down to one missed point? Maybe the isms aren't causes. Maybe they are symptoms. And every single discriminatory one of them follow a similar pattern - people are reduced to objects of contempt, one way or another. Whether considered only deserving of low pay, not being hired at all, not fit to associate with, or a target to be taken advantage of, the source of the ignorance fits this profile:

There's an incredible array of conflicting information on the subject of depression - and the situation isn't helping anyone.