Once again the nations of Scandinavia are considered to have the highest levels of gender equality in the world. The Swiss-based World Economic Forum, which conducts the annual ranking of 130 countries, found that Norway, Finland and Sweden ranked top of the list, respectively.
The survey looks at how each country attempts to close the gap between men and women on issues such as education, economic participation, health, political opportunity and survival. The three Nordic countries only have gaps of around 20 percent, while nations like Yemen, ranking at the bottom of the list, have a gap of over 54 percent.
Yemen was followed by Chad, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Benin, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey and Ethiopia as having the widest gender gaps. The US moved up four spots this year to number 27, closing about 71 percent of its gender gap mainly due to improvements on political empowerment and income equality.
“Greater representation of women in senior leadership positions within governments and financial institutions is vital not only to find solutions to the current economic turmoil, but to stave off such crises in future,” Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, said in a statement.
Ein Blick auf Finnland in vergleichender Perspektive: Steht die finnische Staatspräsidentin
für gleiche Chancen von Frauen in der nordischen Politik? CEuS-Working Paper 2008-1. Bremen, Oktober 2008: Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies (CEuS) an der Universität Bremen.
http://www.monnet-centre.uni-bremen.de/pdf/2008-1%20Rubart.pdf
The woman in the photo is nice looking. I hope she is kinky!–
This resigned ‘state feminism’ considers it a victory when women have an equal opportunity to be the Man. Just look at the picture. As if it was a victory for ‘women’ when Margaret Thatcher was appointed prime minister.
Ridiculous.
Novparl
I know some of the secretaries were to busy switching every other year of husbands, which at the bank were their bosses too.
“Yemen was followed by Chad, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Benin, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey and Ethiopia as having the widest gender gaps.”
When you mention those countries and female rights, the issue is a bit more complicated than just statistics. In those countries the State is the Religion. We all now how the Coran treats differently genders…
What happened to Iceland then? Wrecked by its male-dominated banks. Why didn’t these oh-so-clever feminists say anything against the “greed is good” culture ehich will bring so much unhappiness.