We’ve been looking throughout the day at new data from the World Economic Forum on gender equality throughout the world. We found that the U.S. is finally catching up and in some places exceeding Europe on gender equality and explored the surprising story of French women’s struggle for equality.
What do the data tell us about the Arab-majority states of the Middle East, where nearly two years of protests and revolutions have brought sweeping social change? Here’s the WEF’s data for the last three years. Each country is charted by a number that measures gender equality over several variables, with 0 signifying the least possible equality for women and 1.0 signifying absolute equality.
Read more at The Washington Post, published 25 October 2012.
We’ve been looking throughout the day at new data from the World Economic Forum on gender equality throughout the world. We found that the U.S. is finally catching up and in some places exceeding Europe on gender equality and explored the surprising story of French women’s struggle for equality.
What do the data tell us about the Arab-majority states of the Middle East, where nearly two years of protests and revolutions have brought sweeping social change? Here’s the WEF’s data for the last three years. Each country is charted by a number that measures gender equality over several variables, with 0 signifying the least possible equality for women and 1.0 signifying absolute equality.
Read more at The Washington Post, published 25 October 2012.
