Search Results: finding the perfect woman

For the first time since the World Economic Forum (WEF), gender studies feminist brigade began charting the 'gender gap', the gender gap has allegedly increased, with its figures now claiming that women have only 68% of the chances and outcomes that men have, down from 68.3% measured last year. The group predicts that it would a century to close all areas of equality it monitors globally, well up from the 83 years which it predicted in 2016.

Gender parity is closest in areas of health and education, it says, but significant gaps in economic participation and political empowerment continue to endure across the world. Women will have to wait 217 years before they earn as much as men and are equally represented in the workplace, the study claims. However, the study also has several glaring faults- for instance, if there are any fields in which there's an imbalance in favor of women, that nation gets a perfect score in that field. 70% of the health score is solely based upon the male:female birth ratio, 30% of the economic score is based solely upon the gender ratio in managerial, legislatory and technical job positions (along with 20% on labor force participation, deliberately ignoring the factor of pregnancy leave).

Nordic countries remain the world's highest rated for gender equality; Iceland topped the list with a 'gap' of 12%, and Norway, Finland and Sweden were all in the top 5. Rwanda came fourth in the list with a 'gap' of 18%, largely courtesy of the country having the highest share of women in parliament in the world (3 in 5). Nicaragua, Slovenia, Ireland, New Zealand and the Philippines also made the top 10 on the Global Gender Gap rankings. Women in the Middle East and North Africa fared the worst, with war-torn Yemen coming last on the list with a gender equality score of just 52%. Pakistan, Syria, Chad, Iran, Mali, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Morocco and Jordan completed the bottom 10.

What's your opinion of this study, and its findings?