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G_j

(40,366 posts)
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 02:49 PM Mar 2012

Revealed: The best and worst places to be a woman

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-the-best-and-worst-places-to-be-a-woman-7534794.html

Revealed: The best and worst places to be a woman
An Independent on Sunday investigation to mark International Women's Day unearths some surprising results...

When more than half of the world's population wakes up on Thursday – the 101st International Women's Day – it will be hard to know whether to celebrate or give in to despair. A British woman will face the prospect of at least 14 more general elections before women equal men in the Commons. But a woman in Qatar will be six times more likely to go to university than the man next door.

The global gender gap defies simple solutions. Eighty-five per cent of countries have improved conditions for women over the past six years, according to the World Economic Forum, but in economic and political terms there is still a long way to go.

"From London to Lahore," says Oxfam, "inequality between men and women persists." Here The Independent on Sunday explores the best places to be a woman today.

1. Best place to be a woman: Iceland..

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Revealed: The best and worst places to be a woman (Original Post) G_j Mar 2012 OP
k G_j Mar 2012 #1
Wow, there are some shockers on that list. Rwanda? Lesotho? Sri Lanka? bullwinkle428 Mar 2012 #2
agreed G_j Mar 2012 #3

bullwinkle428

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2. Wow, there are some shockers on that list. Rwanda? Lesotho? Sri Lanka?
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 01:00 PM
Mar 2012

Kind of shows how much further we need to go in the U.S.

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