Finland’s new prime minister caused enthusiasm in the country: Sanna Marin (34) is the youngest female head of government worldwide. She leads a centre-left coalition in which all 5 government parties have women at the top. Her aim: To introduce the 4-day-week and the 6-hour-working day in Finland.
Sanna Marin is the new Prime Minister of Finland. The 34-year-old social democrat was celebrated internationally because of strong women-led government: It is a coalition of five parties – and in all of them, women are the leaders.
For Sanna Marin, the fact that she is young and female doesn’t play a big role:
“I have never thought about my age or gender. I think more about the motivations that brought me into politics.”Marin wants “much shorter working hours”
More important for Marin is the question, how long the Finns should have to work. She demands much shorter working hours on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Turku. In her position as Minister of Transport and Communications, she said:
“A four-day work week, a six-hour workday. Why couldn’t it be the next step? Is eight hours really the ultimate truth? I believe people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture. This could be the next step for us in working life.”
[That link is to the Helsinki Times (en).]
...MOREHere's the Prime Minister and a few of her Ministers:
Prime minister Sanna Marin, 34, (second right) poses with the Minister of Education Li Andersson, 32, Minister of Finance Katri Kulmuni, 32, and Minister of Interior Maria Ohisalo, 34, (left to right) after the first government meeting in Helsinki today
—Daily Mail, December 10
Finland's median age is 42.6 years making it, I have to assume, one of the few places with a PM (and major portfolio cabinet ministers) a decade or so younger than said median
