Iceland tops the list of 136 countries ranked in terms of gender equality for the fifth year in a row — followed by fellow Nordic countries Finland, Norway, and Sweden — and a big part of the reason is the attainable work-life balance that exists there.
The US ranks 23rd.
Nice reporting, although would you move to Iceland to be more equal?
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/world-s-best-place-to-be-a-woman-163435030.html#!mD9Ef
In related news, Saudi Arabia ranks 127 out of 137, in part due to . . .
Every year, nearly four dozen Saudi women get together for a reunion. Eighteen years ago, on Nov. 6, 1990, they staged a public protest against their country's ban on women driving. For half an hour, they drove their cars in a convoy around the capital city of Riyadh until they were stopped by police.
The women paid heavily for their actions — all the drivers, and their husbands, were barred from foreign travel for a year. Those women who had government jobs were fired. And from hundreds of mosque pulpits, they were denounced by name as immoral women out to destroy Saudi society. Almost two decades later, the ban is still in place, making Saudi Arabia the only country in the world where women cannot drive.
From NPR -
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97541372
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