Nine out of ten residents of Finnish Lapland would accept a lesbian newspaper editor
A majority of Finns would accept the idea of a lesbian or male homosexual as an editor of a newspaper.
A poll commissioned by Sunnuntaisuomalainen, the Sunday supplement of a number of provincial newspapers, shows that residents of the province of Finnish Lapland are exceptionally tolerant of the idea of a gay newspaper editor.
The poll found that 93 per cent of respondents in Finnish Lapland would accept an openly gay person as a newsper editor. In the whole country, the figure is just 85 per cent.
The sexual orientation of doctors, teachers, police, clergy, the President, military officers, and pop stars are not a major issue for most people. The lowest acceptance rating was four a homosexual church pastor (64 per cent) or president (69 per cent).
The poll was taken by the market research organisation Taloustutkimus, which interviewed more than 1,000 Finns aged 15 to 79 during last week.
The question of sexual orientation at work became an issue when the media company Alma Media sacked Johanna Korhonen, who had been recently chosen as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Lapin Kansa, which is published in Rovaniemi. Korhonen lives in a registered partnership with another woman, and believes that this was the reason that she was fired.
Alma Media says that Korhonen was sacked because she had not been truthful about the political activities of her partner during the job interview.
The outgoing editor-in-chief of Lapin Kansa, Heikki Tuomi-Nikula, added fuel to the fire by saying that he does not believe that an openly homosexual person could be accepted as a newspaper editor in Finnish Lapland.
A poll commissioned by Sunnuntaisuomalainen, the Sunday supplement of a number of provincial newspapers, shows that residents of the province of Finnish Lapland are exceptionally tolerant of the idea of a gay newspaper editor.
The poll found that 93 per cent of respondents in Finnish Lapland would accept an openly gay person as a newsper editor. In the whole country, the figure is just 85 per cent.
The sexual orientation of doctors, teachers, police, clergy, the President, military officers, and pop stars are not a major issue for most people. The lowest acceptance rating was four a homosexual church pastor (64 per cent) or president (69 per cent).
The poll was taken by the market research organisation Taloustutkimus, which interviewed more than 1,000 Finns aged 15 to 79 during last week.
The question of sexual orientation at work became an issue when the media company Alma Media sacked Johanna Korhonen, who had been recently chosen as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Lapin Kansa, which is published in Rovaniemi. Korhonen lives in a registered partnership with another woman, and believes that this was the reason that she was fired.
Alma Media says that Korhonen was sacked because she had not been truthful about the political activities of her partner during the job interview.
The outgoing editor-in-chief of Lapin Kansa, Heikki Tuomi-Nikula, added fuel to the fire by saying that he does not believe that an openly homosexual person could be accepted as a newspaper editor in Finnish Lapland.
Helsingin Sanomat