in the nursing education launched a campaign in iceland which had only little effect and educations in pedagogy have not been successful in attracting male students either gislason blames the unsuccessful attempts to change the educational choices of icelandic men on the fact that prior to the economic crisis in iceland had no considerable unemployment some jobs such as those within health care are now considered to be more secure and less vulnerable to cyclical fluctuations gislason therefore believes that the crisis might be instrumental in breaking with the traditional gender segregation of the icelandic labour market the icelandic labour market is also characterised by unequal pay and this is related to place icelandic women are paid less than icelandic men and this applies to married women in particular according to figures from centre for gender equality see also rafnsdottir and omarsdottir