Categories: General
      Date: Nov  1, 2009
     Title: Icelandic Chicks are in Charge!

The World Economic Forum just released its annual Global Gender Gap Report ranking Iceland as number one in gender equality. This is not surprising as the Prime Minister of Iceland, the mayor of the capital city of Reykjavik, and the CEO of the largest corporation are all women.

Nordic countries — Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden — took the top four spots in the report’s rankings and the United States was ranked No. 31.

The index contains four parts:
1) Economic participation and opportunity: outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment.
2) Educational attainment: outcomes on access to basic and higher-level education.
3) Political empowerment: outcomes on representation in decision-making structures.
4) Health and survival: outcomes on life expectancy and sex ratio.

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