Women have won many of the freedoms enjoyed by today's generations within the framework of long-standing feminist movements. And modern society also promotes gender equality - ten years ago there was no country in which men and women had equal rights, today there are already six such countries. And where did Slovenia find itself?
World Bank dealing with problems of global proportions, this time tackled the question of which countries in the world have women and men completely equal rights. In a study titled Women, business and the law that's how they determined where they were legal and economic equal rights between the sexes. They found that only in six countries, but even ten years ago there was no country where the rights were equal for both sexes.
The researchers looked at data from the last ten years and concluded that it has been achieved progress in the field of legal gender equality. On the scale of 0 to 100 (0 the lowest, 100 the highest) is the average gender equality score 74,1 , which means that, on average, women have only three quarters the rights of men.
V France, Belgium, Latvians and Luxembourg and on Denmark and Sweden this figure amounts to 100. In these six countries, men and women have equal rights - that is, both sexes are completely equal ties in categories “travel”, “employment”, “pay”, “marriage”, “children”, “own business”, “pension” and “asset management”.
The countries with the lowest scores were Iran, Sudan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia - these scored below 35.
What about Slovenia? Its result is 90,63. There should be no differences between men and women in the areas of travel, marriage, children, property management, employment and own business – these categories were evaluated with a score of 100. They represent the biggest problem equal pay (estimate 75) and pension (estimate 50).
The research aimed to develop a better understanding of how legal discrimination affects women's employment and female entrepreneurship. The results prove that women must to fight with many discriminatory laws and regulations limiting their equality.
The report states that the changes are optimistic, and that they are obvious positive reforms in sub-Saharan Africa, while in North Africa and the Middle East things are moving very slowly. If the rate of progress remains stable, women should reach full equality in all fields in just a year 2073.
More information:
openknowledge.worldbank.org
