{"id":26709,"date":"2016-03-09T13:02:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=26709"},"modified":"2016-03-17T21:40:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T21:40:30","slug":"%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%af%d6%80%d5%b6%d5%a5%d6%80-%d5%b8%d6%80%d5%bf%d5%a5%d5%b2-%d5%af%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%b6%d6%81-%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%a1%d6%80-%d6%84%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%a4%d5%be%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b4-%d5%a5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%af%d6%80%d5%b6%d5%a5%d6%80-%d5%b8%d6%80%d5%bf%d5%a5%d5%b2-%d5%af%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%b6%d6%81-%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%a1%d6%80-%d6%84%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%a4%d5%be%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b4-%d5%a5\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Glass-ceiling index\u201d: The best\u2014and worst\u2014places to be a working woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/glass-ceiling.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>TO MARK the\u00a0\u00a0International Women\u2019s Day on March 8th, we present our \u201cglass-ceiling index\u201d which aims to reveal where women have the best chances of equal treatment at work. It combines data on higher education, labour-force participation, pay, child-care costs,\u00a0maternity rights,\u00a0business-school applications and representation in senior jobs. We&#8217;ve also included paternity rights as\u00a0an additional measure this year. Studies show that where new fathers take parental leave, mothers tend to return to the labour market, female employment is higher and the earnings gap between men and women is lower.\u00a0Each country\u2019s score is a weighted average of its performance on ten indicators.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the Nordic countries\u2014Iceland (a newcomer to our index), Norway, Sweden and Finland\u2014come out top overall. In these countries, women are present in the labour force at similar rates to men. Finland has the largest share of women who have gone through higher education compared with men (49% of women have a tertiary degree, and 35% of men). Norway\u2019s gender wage-gap (6.3%) is less than half the\u00a0OECD\u00a0average (15.5%).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Women have 44% of seats on listed-company boards in Iceland; strong representation in Scandinavian boardrooms is common thanks to quotas. Norway and Iceland also have voluntary political-party quotas, as does Sweden where 44% of parliamentary seats are occupied by women, one of the highest rates in the world. Hungary ranks fifth, having the lowest gender wage gap, of 3.8%. Despite having few women on boards (11%) and in parliament (10%), Hungary has generous paid leave for mothers (71 weeks at 100% of recent pay) and low child-care costs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/economist.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of the ranking are Japan, Turkey and South Korea, where men are more likely than women to have degrees, to be in the workplace and to hold senior positions. Their pay gap is also wide. In Japan and South Korea the favourable parental-leave system is mainly a response to their ageing populations and shrinking labour forces; but in other respects they are far behind the Nordic countries, whose commitment to sexual equality goes back a long way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2016\/03\/daily-chart-0?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fed%2Fthebestandworstplacestobeaworkingwoman&amp;%3Ffsrc%3Dscn%2F=tw%2Fdc\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">TO MARK the\u00a0\u00a0International Women\u2019s Day on March 8th, we present our \u201cglass-ceiling index\u201d which aims to reveal where women have the best chances of equal treatment at work. 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