Academic
: Feminist Law ProfessorsIceland to Name First Lesbian Prime Minister
By Ann Bartow (index)
From Yahoo News:
Iceland’s next leader will be an openly gay former flight attendant who parlayed her experience as a union organizer into a decades-long political career. Both parties forming Iceland’s new coalition government support the appointment of Johanna Sigurdardottir, the island nation’s 66-year-old social affairs minister, as Iceland’s interim prime minister.

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Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).

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