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https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230927-the-worlds-most-gender-equal-countries>
"How is the world doing on gender equality? According to the World Economic
Forum (WEF), the picture is mixed. The needle is moving in the right direction,
according to its latest Global Gender Gap report, but incrementally. At the
current rate of progress, the report finds, it will take 131 years to reach
full parity between women and men (the report does not take into account
non-binary or other identities). And no country has yet achieved full gender
equality.
While countries in Europe and North America tend to do better than the rest of
the world, there is plenty of variation. The United States, for example, ranks
43rd, with the gender gap less than 75% closed, behind countries including
Colombia, Belarus, Liberia and Cabo Verde. Australia (77.8%) ranked 26th,
between Mozambique and Chile, and Canada (77%) ranked 30th, between Slovenia
and Barbados.
The report weighs aspects like women's economic participation (including the
gender gaps in income, employment and leadership roles), educational attainment
(with measures like literacy rates and educational enrolment), health and
survival (such as life expectancy) and political empowerment (female
representation in parliament, ministerial positions and years with a male or
female head of state).
Based on this data, which places perform the best – and what do women say it's
really like to live there?
BBC Travel talks to residents and expats in four
of the top-ranked nations to better understand what it's like to travel in or
move to these countries."
Via
What Could Go Right? October 5, 2023:
https://theprogressnetwork.org/natural-disaster-deaths-declining/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
