The new World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Index was just released and the findings are quite shocking. Norway, Finland and Sweden round out the top 3, respectively, for the least discrepancy in equality between women and men. However, even these 'progressive' countries are still nowhere near full equality as measured by WEF's set of key indicators. Unfortunately, women still remain systematically disadvantaged in areas like economic earnings, access to education, political representation, and health care. With the top countries still only providing women with 82% of what they grant to men, there is still much work to be done.
As a Canadian woman living in the UK, it seems I'm better off here. The UK ranked 13th out of the 130 indexed countries while Canada tanked at 31. The United States didn't do much better (likely ousting Canada in political representation, because it's certainly not health care or access to education), coming in at 27. The shame!
Hmm...modelling seems to be the only industry that is exceptionally more lucrative for women than it is men. And people think models are dumb.
great article my friend and i concur...peace luv and light ...Jo
Posted by: giovanna prodger | November 13, 2008 at 06:13 PM