Guess which country ranked bottom in the Economist's glass-ceiling index

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Where is best to be a working woman in the rich world

IF YOU are a working woman, you would do well to move to New Zealand—or if that is a little out of the way, you could try one of the Nordic countries. To mark International Women’s Day, The Economist has compiled its own “glass-ceiling index” to show where women have the best chance of equal treatment at work. Based on data mainly from the OECD, it compares five indicators across 26 countries: the number of men and women respectively with tertiary education; female labour-force participation; the male-female wage gap; the proportion of women in senior jobs; and net child-care costs relative to the average wage. The first four are given equal weighting, the fifth a lower one, since not all working women have children. New Zealand scores high on all the indicators. Finland does best on education; Sweden has the highest female labour-force participation rate, at 78%; and Spain has the smallest wage gap, at 6%. The places not to be are South Korea and Japan, partly because so few women hold down senior jobs (though the new president of South Korea is a woman).





The Economist

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[cagallisakura.livejournal.com]

yay go Canada for being #4!

to the people who want to move to korea so they can be closer to ~oppar~

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

Well obviously someone like that is really young/has a limited understanding of the world. We need to try to educate girls like that, not make fun of them.

[flumes.livejournal.com]

i read this as if SK was at the top and i was like that is incredibly surprising. and it wasnt. so. not surprised about NZ bc really what IS new zealand? idk either

[uglypricetag.livejournal.com]

my bad. i've changed the title so it's less confusing now. thanks for pointing it out

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

yeah having a woman president means nothing for women's rights since that said president only got elected because she's a daughter of a dictator and a puppet for a party that managed to brainwash everybody that having a dictator actually benefitted the economy.

i get so pissed whenever someone denies that women's rights are terrible in korea, saying that "but women hold all the power in the household!" yeah, but only IN the household. ughhhh.

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

ia with your whole comment

[21banged.livejournal.com]

Definitely not surprised Japan and SK are at the bottom of this list...they're all for women being submissive and 'pure' and all >>

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

Ashamed to be American right now.

My mind is blown every time I think about Japan and South Korea being so advanced in technology, education and medicine, but being totally way out of date when it comes to women's suffrage and equality in everyday society

[obeytheempress.livejournal.com]

Mine too :/ I admittedly know little about women's history in Japan or South Korea, but it seems like both countries advanced technologically so quickly that things like women's rights and queer rights haven't had time to catchup :(

[woohyun.livejournal.com]

YAS TO CANADA @ #4! murica hew

[exo-cath.livejournal.com]

For a sec I couldn't even find Britain and I got very worried :/

[breathless31.livejournal.com]

how sickening is it that there are NO countries over 90%?

[lee-chikin.livejournal.com]

Switzerland just above Japan????
And hi there Italy, I'm not in the least surprised seeing you down there.

[purekpopology.livejournal.com]

mte. Switzerland didn't make sense to me, but poor Italy did, ugh :(.

[regnsky.livejournal.com]

Norway may be high on the list but we still have far to go.

[yejun.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say the same thing about Sweden :c

[hurtmybones.livejournal.com]

oop @ all those ~civilized~ northern european countries being at the bottom with us lazy&uncivilized southern ones. that said this is embarrassing and the sad thing is that with the crisis the difference will probably get worse.

[staaan.livejournal.com]

uhh sorry but what is your definition of northern europe?? because none of the actual northern countries are at the bottom

[af-fx-tion.livejournal.com]

ikr I don't get how we could be so high on the list, we're awful in equal treatment of women in the workplace.

[hey-kami-sama.livejournal.com]

Wow, didn't expect Poland to be that high on the list.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Same! And Spain and Portugal too. I'm also surprised France ranked above the US. There must be specific policies about educating women to high levels, paying equal wages, and not penalizing women for having kids. Because none of those countries are known for having a culture that treats men and women the same.

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

My country isn't even on the list lmao.

[fantaesticbaby.livejournal.com]

shit Britain is so low down T_T

[adjuihcuzuejrim.livejournal.com]

germany has a female head of government ut that doesn't help either

[harisukaori.livejournal.com]

You go Poland ^^

[bebetama.livejournal.com]

France is a little over the 70 mark :( but I'm kind of surprise by Britain.

And yeah Canada! I prepare myself to go/live there in 1-2 years.

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

side-eying my country. get it the fuck together.

it's so crazy because i never noticed this in school but in the workplace? my god, men REALLY dont listen if u're female ESPECIALLY if u kno more about something than they do. it's INFURIATING.

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

The difference between school and "the real world" is startling. Like I've been on my first job out of school for about a year and I'm still not used to it. The number of completely clueless men in positions of power is ridiculous. I'm always like "why do you listen to this guy, he's an idiot!" And my female superiors and colleagues are just like "you're so young and naive. :("

[purekpopology.livejournal.com]

Eh the US is pulling middle ranks, not exactly proud of that, or encouraged being a woman in that country.

Not surprised about Japan and Korea, we know what values/expectations they hold towards women. Also Italy being low is no surprise, because they have a lot of women issues too (domestic violence, etc.)

I am surprised about Switzerland being so low? They just always struck me as more socially advanced like some other European countries.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Nothing new really considering most of the countries on the list are the Americas or European. :/

[rinn1e.livejournal.com]

Who here lives in some of the top countries on the list? Are they welcoming to women in other races? Is there a list for which country good for non white women to work and live in?

[falling-empress.livejournal.com]

I'd like to know the same! One of my friends keeps telling me we need to move to Sweden and Tumblr is convincing me that it's true lol...

[yingmoon26.livejournal.com]

Canada is pretty good with gender equality but I do still find we have some racial issues when it comes to hiring. I guess this is particularly because I live in the French province woot~

[chunonew-rx.livejournal.com]

no latin country here.... maybe is because we are just below 0% lol

[beatinlove.livejournal.com]

because the list is just about the "rich world"
i was looking for my country as well but then i read the title :( lol

[deeinanutshell.livejournal.com]

so proud and pleasantly surprised at canada.