“PRESS for progress” is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day on March 8th. As our sixth glass-ceiling index shows,disparity between countries remains wide. But women have made some progress towards equality in the workplace in the past year.
The index ranks the best and worst countries to be a working woman. Each score is based on average performance in ten indicators: educational attainment, labour-market attachment, or pay,child-care costs, maternity and paternity rights, or trade-school applications and representation in senior jobs (in managerial positions,on company boards and in parliament).
Equality-conscious Nordics typically achieve well while workplace parity for women in Japan, South Korea and Turkey still lags badly. America under President Donald Trump rose from 20th to 19th region thanks in part to a higher female labour-force participation rate. This year Sweden ranks first, and scoring well in female labour-force participation,which is over 80%, and the share of...
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Source: economist.com