http://www.trust.org/item/20140526111135-wvjqg

Sweden Hopefully this is the start of something big

Slay Sweden! Always ahead of the other lesser countries.
You go girl!

Slay Sweden Meanwhile Germany elects neo-Nazis for the first time

Great but this doesn't make me a happy bunny and it certainly doesn't compensate me for all those far right parties across the continent.

It's not supposed to compensate for it... It's a huge feat in itself

That sounds like an awful future. Equal pay and all that is an important issue of course, but it's not something that needs its own dedicated political parties and isn't exactly the most important issue facing Governments today... I'd hope my Government was more than just a glorified pressure group for one specific issue that doesn't even effect me.

Anyway, isn't feminism quite an old issue at this point rather than the future? The only real issues left that I can think of is equal pay and the "glass ceiling" - but in most developed nations I'm sure you can already report those companies to the Government if you can prove you're being overlooked due to your gender rather than due to Skills/Experience/etc. Equal pay acts are decades old in most nations and the pay gap is constantly decreasing, it's a bit late for parties dedicated to it to takeover.

Sweden are so progressive.

At the same time, many countries elected right-wing, very conservative parties, some of them considered as neonazi. So yeah... it will be a mess in EU Parliament

Are those right winged parties some are posting about really that bad? And I thought Stephen Harper was bad

In some countries they are REALLY extreme, like in Greece (Hitler teas...), while in other countries they're not quite as extreme but, yanno, they don't want immigration at all and are rather racist so they're not much better.