The best place for women’s lives
American weekly Newsweek in a recent issue dedicated to the global struggle for women’s rights recognized Iceland best country for women’s lives.
Armenia is on the 43 positions.
The journalists carried out a study in which distributed the country to places depending on the success they have achieved in the field of women’s equality.
The first rank went to Iceland, followed by Sweden and Canada. For the three leaders are Denmark, Finland, Switzerland and Norway. U.S. in eighth place, while Australia and the Netherlands complete the top ten.
The rating is on criteria such as women’s rights, access to education, medicine, women’s participation in politics. According Icenews, overall rating of Iceland – 90 points out of a hundred possible.
The worst thing in the world of women living in Chad, Afghanistan and Yemen.
Ranking of countries published a weekly American magazine “Newsweek”.
The best country for women was as follows:
1. Iceland
2. Sweden
3. Canada
4. Denmark
5. Finland
6. Switzerland
7. Norway
8. USA
9. Australia
10. Netherlands
11. New Zealand
13. France
14. Luxembourg
15. The former Yugoslavia
16. Republic of Moldova
17. Philippines
18. Belgium
19. United Kingdom
20. Romania
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43. Republic of Armenia
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Some of the worst countries were:
162. Congo
163. Yemen
164. Afghanistan
165. Chad
Place between the 165 countries were divided according to grades of 10 factors, including health care and political activism. Also, when assessing the use of such categories as education, legal protection, rights in employment.
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