Caitlin Ford

“Nordic societies recognize that for individuals to give fully to their jobs as employees and as parents, they need time to rest, recuperate, and just enjoy each other’s company. This means giving workers—all workers, at the top and the bottom—substantial paid vacations every year.”
― Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

“In most other modern industrialized societies, including Finland, health care is considered a basic human right.”
― Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

“Yes, Finland and the United States are different. But consider the fact that most American education is managed by the states. Finland’s population of 5.5 million is easily comparable to many an American state. In fact, more than half of America’s states—thirty of them—have populations smaller than Finland’s. Solely on the question of size, there’s no reason any number of states in the United States couldn’t implement a system just like Finland’s.”
― Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

“Nordic nations have realized that it is in the best long-term interests of everyone, including businesses, to support families in raising children. After all, in the long run, happy family members are more productive, and businesses will have a wider pool of healthy, productive, well-adjusted workers to draw on in the future. So when it comes to granting parental leave after a baby is born, the Nordic approach is also quite different from the American.”
― Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life