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Equal Pay, Whole Year Parental Leave: This European Island Nation Is The Best Place To Live For Women
Equal Pay, Whole Year Parental Leave: This European Island Nation Is The Best Place To Live For Women. (Image: Canva)
The 2024 Women Peace and Security Index (WPS), a revelation by Georgetown University, has ranked a total of 177 countries on the basis of their inclusion, justice, and safety for women.
Some of the top issues that these reports evaluate for these rankings include education, employment, financial inclusion, cell phone use, parliamentary representation, absence of legal discrimination, justice, maternal mortality ratio, son bias, domestic violence, community safety, political violence targeting women, and proximity to conflict, states Forbes.
For the 14th year in a row, Iceland has taken the top position in these rankings – with the gender gap estimated to be 91.2% closed. It is the only country to have closed more than 90% of its gap.
As per Forbes, the rankings show:
- Women Peace and Security Index: #4
- Global Gender Gap Report: #1
- Maternal Health Care and Survival: #4
- World Happiness Report: #3
- Global Peace Index: #1
- Maternity leave: 13 weeks, paid at 80%
- Paternity leave: 12 weeks, paid at 80%
- Additional parental leave: 26 weeks for each parent, paid at 80%
The above findings show that Iceland is the most feminist and gender-equal country in the world. In fact, it has been the most gender-equal country in the world for the last 15 years.
Iceland has had the female head of state for almost 25 years and this year 48% of its parliament members are female.
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