Finland has been praised for its historic approach to gender equality, but it's all as good as it seems to be five white educated females.

It's not very representative in the end on is this really a country for everyone?

Off course, Our background still effects possibilities we have in life and they shouldn't be the case.

But of course we have brought one ahead of the launch of an ambitious new equality plan we took exclusively to the party.

Leaders of the world's only a leafy male led government, Lee Anderson is one of the five female party leaders that make up the country's coalition government.

This week, the Cabinet are going to be meeting to launch signature government program, the Equality Plan aimed to improve the quality across society, including on race and gender issues.

I mean, in Finnish media, I think there's been some kind of comments around whether we all go to the sauna together because there's this old cliche about finished politics that the decisions are made in the sauna, something that had been heavily criticized in feminist circles.

Because, you know, the whole idea off male decision makers sitting in the sun is based on this concept off decision makers.

Beings only meant there is kind of this tendency off some people to say that because there is women, you will make a certain type of policy, or it's easier for you to agree when you're old women and so on.

And that's not, I think, necessarily the case.

And that's why I also want there to be focused around the policy off the government, not just gender off the female party leaders.

Although Finland is celebrated for its equality, recent reports from the Council of Europe have detailed what they call a concerning rise in racism in the country.

Bella four screen is the only black politician in Finland's government, and Acuna, on one, is the chair of Finland's anti racist forum.

I mean, on my set, a goal with total McCorkell means that this awesome woman island tithe Park Island, send the model disordered if we had exactly the same conditions, exactly the same timing, exactly the same age, exactly the same family background.

And yet Sana Marine was black.

Would she be prime minister now?

Not now, not now.

I think the representation with five white educated females.

It's not very representative.

In the end, Onda uh, there were a lot of critical, uh, writings when this photo went viral that Hey, if if we really look at the equality here, it doesn't show yet, and I agree on that.

It's actually Tory a Alunan who you probably know, the first female president and the only female president.

She says that it's not the person who breaks the glass ceiling, but it's the people who follow, and I think that's to the point.

You always you need the persons who break the ceiling.

But then you also needle the people who will follow, and you should never stop that.

Far up in the Arctic Circle, Finland's Northern Territory is home to Europe's only indigenous population, the Sami people in Finland.

They were only officially recognized by the government in the nineties, and they still face a battle for their right to the land on their way of life.

Sarah Weslyn is a journalist based in the Sami town of Evil.

Oh, they were the major sort of issues concerning Sami people.

Right now you don't have ah, Sammy representative in Finnish government.

Is that worrying?

Yes, of course.

In your ideal future, what would you like this government to do?

What would you like Santa Marine to dio for Sammy women, we can.

We don't have to be ashamed that we are Sam Sam is living in Finland.

We can be proud that we are part off finished nation as a Sammy, and we are equals here.

One of the main issues addressed in the government equality plan is the rights of gender.

Minorities in Finland's trans rights activists have for years asked for reform of the transact, a law that currently requires those seeking legal gender recognition toe undergo enforced sterilization.

What Fillon is the only Nordic country that still requires infertility in order to get your legal gender recognize.

So in order to get the M F F M, you need to prove that you cannot have biological Children.

We have had a female president.

We have the youngest female leader of country, but alone that doesn't it's just a token alone.

It has to have the support off the system behind it before it actually makes a difference.

So it's possible that the transact could be the sacrificial lamb.

Once again, it looks like any coalition government is a mixed bag of politics and agendas that have come together in the hope of being mawr effective.

But to implement any real change or government plans requires unanimous support across the board.

When you build the government in Finland, you put a lot of effort on what we call the government's program.

Onda.

Uh, there is negotiations.

We had it for three weeks, Uh, in 2019, Onda.

Then when you have that program, everyone knows that this is it.

This is what we have decided together.

When you are five different parties, you have to all the time.

Try to see how you find solutions.

When you have different, different opinions, please enter the conference password.

Finland's party leaders are meeting at Helsinki's houses of the estates for the filter Kohlu, a Cabinet meeting to discuss the new Equality program.

Trans rights and racism is on the agenda.

Finland has had a coalition governments forever, so of course we are used to trying to make compromises and trying to find consensus between different parties and ideologists.

And I think it's also big strength for US gender.

Minorities were also discussed in the equality program, particular transgender people, and Finland is has been in the spotlight that everyone shoot should have the right to determine their own identities for you.

Ah, trans women, women.

It's not my job.

Identify people.

It's everyone's job to identify themselves.

If people, if someone feels that he or she is a woman, then it's not my place to say a lot was written about how well Finland, Taiwan, New Zealand, Germany did in terms of the covert responses.

There was quick, decisive action on the other thing that all those countries have in common are female leaders.

Well, of course, there are countries led by men that has that have also done well, so I don't think it's a gender based issue.

I think we should more focus on how the countries that have done well what they have done, what they have learned, what we all can learn from each other on that we also have response together because it's a global pandemic.

At some point, uh, something might change and that popularity might change when a decision needs to be made, especially maybe during covert times as well.

Does that worry you at all?

I don't look at polls.

The most important thing is that we try to make the decisions that we have to make based on the best knowledge that we can use, and also that we're trying to make decisions in a way that helps ordinary people in their ordinary lives in crisis and also in normal times.

So this is my mission as a prime minister.

But there are challenges ahead, and no prime minister in Finland has seen a full term since the nineties.

But with 85% approval rating, Santa Marina is enjoying a striking level of confidence in a nisi times here.