Sunday, March 23, 2014

Global Gender Gap Report and International Women's Day

March 8th was International Women's Day.

According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2013, the top 10 countries for women are these:

Top countries
  • 1. Iceland
  • 2. Finland
  • 3. Norway
  • 4. Sweden
  • 5. Philippines
  • 6. Ireland
  • 7. New Zealand
  • 8. Denmark
  • 9. Switzerland
  • 10. Nicaragua

Great Britain was 18th and the United States was 23rd. No member of the G20 countries were in the top 10.

The BBC has a good overview of the report here: Women Gain as Gender gap 'Narrows'