10 Countries that Scored Highest in Women Employment Margins
BENGALURU: The statistics about working men and women are not equal globally. It varies from one country to another but still there is not a single country that has quite achieved the gender equality. The Economist's glass-ceiling index has emphasized World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report which incorporates, the Gender Gap Report, by the OECD, and other sources to measure how well the world's top economies have leveraged their female talent pool and the global survey says that the United Kingdom, United States of America and Germany all fall below the OECD average (The organization for Economic Co-operation and Development).
With inputs from Business Insider India, here is a glimpse of the list of the 10 Best Countries featured in the report that ranks high in closing educational attainment gender gap and provides many options for country’s female employees.
1. Finland
Finland’s system of public childcare and free school meals led the country’s 83 percent of women to be work-engaged. The report of Global Gender Gap concludes Finland to have the highest share of women in higher education and also has the largest female labour-force participation. Even mothers play a vital role in enhancing the country’s economic structure. They have over 42 percent of women parliamentarians and 50 percent occupying minister seats. Finland is also among the top ten countries that features the highest share of women employed in the non-agriculture sector too.
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