The Global Gender Gap Report ranks 136 countries (which collectively contain over 93 percent of the worlds population) based on 14 indicators used to measure the size of a nations gender gap in four key areas: 1. Economic participation and opportunity, which includes female labor force participation, wage equality and the percentage of women in high-ranking, highly-skilled jobs. 2. Educational attainment, which looks at female literacy, and womens access to and enrollment in both basic and higher education. 3. Political empowerment, which examines the number of women holding political office as well as the number of female heads of state over the last 50 years. 4. Health and survival, which is measured by comparing female and male life expectancy and mortality rates. And Switzerland is Number 9. Interesting, how living in the country feels different from the rather good results....
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 05:26:44 +0000
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