Gender Empowerment High in Europe

08/04/2003

Gender Empowerment High in Europe

"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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