New Zealand is ranked fifth in an international list of countries which have closed the gender gap.
Norway heads the list, and three other Scandanavian countries dominate the ‘Gender Gap Index’, which monitors progress in political, education and economic spheres.
New Zealand came fifth and was the first non-Scandanavian country after Finland, Sweden and Iceland.
130 countries were monitored. The UK rated 13th and Australia 21st.
Ranking tells only part of the story, being not as good as perfect isn’t bad and being better than appalling isn’t good.
I take it the ranking looks at women’s participation, but I wonder how we’d all rate if it also looked at men’s involvement in what have been, and maybe still are, predomiantly female roles and activities?
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