Gender Gap

An article posted on the New York Times website and writen by Nicola Clark summarizes the gender gap around the world. The artcle titled Nordic Nations Remain Gender-Equality Leaders recieves their information from World Economic Forum, which is a nonprofit organization based in Switzerland. The forum rates countries based on how much they have reduced the gender gaps. The forum takes into acount reduction in economic participation, education, health, and political empowerent. The leading country is Iceland followed by Finland. The United States jumped 12 spots from the previous year and made the top 20 for the first time since 2005. The majority of the jump for the United States is due to the high number of women now in political office. Countries near the top of the list have shown that each year they keep improving on closing the gender gaps. Also it is shown that women in these countries are staying with in the workfeild and have less of a deline then men. Although the economic gap is closing, it still has the largest percentage that still needs to be closed. The article states, "96 percent of health gaps and 93 percent of education gaps have been closed; Yet only 60 percent of economic participation gaps have been closed".

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/world/12gender.html?scp=3&sq=gender&st=cse