The Best Countries For Women

7. New Zealand:

Among the Asia/Pacific zone,  the list was topped New Zealand with overall scores of 83.1. In this nation, there has been an increasing recognition for women’s empowerment in recent years, indicating enormous strides made by women in society.

New Zealand comes out on the top of the index as the countries which have most equal status for women in their profession, based on the labor-force participation rate, wage gap among other things. Women out perform men in education field.

 A strong statutory framework helps women to protect themselves through legal and human rights. Greater accesses to primary health care services are other amenities to women which helped in better standard of life. Being the first country to guarantee right to vote to women is keeping up to its standard.

6. Ireland:

Ireland though dropped by one rank in the list still managed to make it in the top ten list. In Ireland the rights to women have improved greatly since it joined the EEC in 1973.

 Ireland succeeded the target set by EU to achieve 60 percent of employment in women by 2006. Irish women’s hourly incomes have crossed that of men by 2006. Female students outnumber male students in higher education.

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