Now Konráðsdóttir has nonchalantly demonstrated to the rest of the world on film why family-friendly workplaces should be the norm, not the exception.

She later told AFP that breastfeeding is "the most natural thing in the world".

"She wasn't disturbed," Konráðsdóttir, of the right wing Independence Party, said. "On the contrary, she would have been bothered if I had stopped feeding her to speak."

"It's like any job, you've got to do what you've got to do," the mother-of three added.

Key moments in Iceland's move to gender equality:

1850: Becomes the first country in the world to grant unconditional equal inheritance rights to men and women
1915: Women over 40 are granted the vote - three years before voting rights are given to some women in Britain
1975: 90% of the country's women go on strike - at work and at home - for equal gender rights
1980: elects Europe's first female president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, a divorced single mother (who was re-elected three more times)
2000: makes equal parental leave law, giving three months for each parent respectively, with an additional three months to split between them (in 2012 this was increased to five months leave, with an additional two months to share)
2009: elects the country's first female Prime Minister, Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir, who was also the world's first openly gay head of state
2015: MP Bjort Olafsdottir posts a picture of her breast on Twitter in support of the #FreeTheNipple campaign
2016: MP Unnur Brá Konráðsdóttir breastfeeds during a televised address to parliament

Icelandic MP casually breastfeeds during speech to parliament