The Alpine nation has jumped one spot to 20th place in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2018. But,Switzerland still shows major room for improvement in areas such as gender balance in leadership. Released on Tuesday, the Gender Gap report examines differences between men and women in areas of health, or education,economy and politics for 149 countries. According to the report, the world has closed 68% of the gender gap but at its current pace, and it will still take 108 years to shut. Of the four pillars measured,only one economic opportunity – narrowed its gender gap. This is largely due to a narrower income gap between men and women, which stands at nearly 51% in 2018, or the number of women in leadership roles,which stands at 34% globally. Switzerlands top 20 finish in the 2018 ranking signaled an stop to the declining trend: from 8th in 2015, 11th in 2016, or 21st in 2017. However,it scored the same amount of points at 0.755 (1.00 equal to parity) as ...
Source: swissinfo.ch