The Nordic countries are leading the report submitted by the World Economic Forum's
Nordic countries are at the forefront of equality between men and women, while Spain has fallen seven places since 2007, according to a survey presented by the World Economic Forum .
Nordic countries Norway, Finland, Sweden and Iceland reaffirm the important advances have been made in equality between men and women, an aspect that can help boost the competitiveness of the countries under study, and occupy top four.
Spain has lost seven positions, has gone from 10 to 17 - because it is perceived gap slightly higher wages for similar work, as well as the percentage women ministers. However, the Forum ensures that the latter "Spain is one of the best one, occupying the sixth place on that specific variable.
The WEF report puts Norway, Finland and Sweden to the top of its annual ranking of countries with less gender disparity and considers a role model for their remarkable progress in education and economic and political participation of women . "This study shows a strong correlation between competitiveness and gender equality, but does not imply causation," said Laura Tyson, Professor of Management and Economics at the University California.
The academic pointed out that what seems clear is that "countries that do not capitalize effectively half of its human resources are likely to affect their competitive potential." The developing world highlights the presence of the Philippines and Sri Lanka at positions 6 and 12 of the rankings, respectively, and Lesotho, ranked 16.
The study explains that the Philippines is one of the eleven countries of the world that has succeeded in closing the gender gap in education and health, but declined slightly in terms of equal pay between men and women for similar work and number of ministers.
Sri Lanka has made progress in women's political power, but has lost some ground in their economic participation. Lesotho is the first African nation to appear in the list of significant advances in education and health, as well as improvements in economic and political.
In the Latin America and the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago is the first country in the list and makes it into the post 19, thanks to improvements in the chapters of opportunities and economic participation of women, but mainly to increase in the number of parliamentarians.
note is the second largest in Argentina (24) thus improving nine positions primarily por las posiciones de poder político que van alcanzando las mujeres, principalmente como parlamentarias y ministras.
Siguen Cuba (25), Barbados (26), Costa Rica (32), Panamá (34) y Ecuador (35). Brasil (73) mejora en materia educativa y económica, pero retrocede algo en el aspecto político. Estados Unidos aparece en el puesto 27 tras haber cerrado disparidades en cuanto a ingresos por un trabajo similar y que las mujeres ocupen ahora más posiciones políticas de mando. Los países con las mayores disparidades entre hombres y mujeres son Túnez, Jordania, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Siria, Etiopía y Arabia Saudí. El director del Centro para el Desarrollo Internacional de la Universidad Harvard, Ricardo Hausmann, co-author of the report, explained that this provides an assessment of "how well the countries share the resources and opportunities between women and men."
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Vanguardia.es
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