Last month, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released a report regarding the current worldwide gender gap. The report measures female economic participation, education, health and political involvement. Overall women currently have 60% of the standing of men. It will apparently take 81 years for the gender gap to close if progress continues at the present rate. The report, however, does not measure quality of life amongst women; this includes reproductive freedom.
All five of the Nordic Countries, which includes Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, have closed more than 80% of their gender gap. Nicaragua went up to the sixth position followed by Rwanda. The United States doesn't even show up on the top ten list.
Unfortunately the political empowerment gap is at a meager metric of 21%. This means that 2 out of 10 positions represent women. According to the WEF, this is an improvement since the last report in 2006.
Overall it seems that Iceland is the best place on Earth in terms of gender equality. Let's all move to Iceland!
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