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Gender Empowerment High in Europe
August 4, 2003
"Sticks in a
bundle are unbreakable." - Bondei Proverb
GENDER EMPOWERMENT HIGH
IN EUROPE
The United Nations periodically publishes a "Human Development
Index" which rates the human development environment in all nations belonging
to the United Nations. To develop this index the UN analyzes a wide range
of economic, educational, environmental and social indicators. One of
the indicators it takes into account is the "Gender Empowerment Measure"
(GEM) which measures how actively gender equity is being pursued in each country.
The measure looks at seats in parliament held by women, female senior
officials, female professional workers, and the ratio of female to male earned
income. In the 2002 Human Development Report (http://hdr.undp.org/),
these are the top nations in terms of their GEM rankings:
1. Norway
2. Iceland
3. Sweden
4. Denmark
5. Finland
6. Netherlands
7. Canada
8. Germany
9. New Zealand
10. Australia
11. United States
12. Austria
13. Switzerland
14. Belgium
15. Spain
16. United Kingdom
17. Ireland
18. Barbados
19. Bahamas
20. Portugal
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