Source: www.weforum.org

The World Economic Forum published the Global Gender Gap Report 2007.

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"The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report is a framework for capturing the magnitude of gender-based disparities across the world and tracking how they evolve over time. As policy-makers and business leaders seek to address talent shortages, there is increasing urgency to close gender gaps and leverage the talents of both women and men. At the World Economic Forum, we put strong emphasis on addressing this challenge – a challenge that transcends across the majority of the world’s cultures, industries and income groups – through a multistakeholder approach," said Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum.

Norway (1) leads the world in closing the gender gap between men and women, according to the overall ranking in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2008. Three other Nordic countries – Finland (2), Sweden (3) and Iceland (4) – also top the Report’s Gender Gap Index. Previously higher ranking countries such as Germany (11), United Kingdom (13) and Spain (17) slipped down the Index but stayed in the top 20, while Netherlands (9), Latvia (10), Sri Lanka (12) and France (15) made significant gains. Featuring a total of 130 countries, this year’s Report provides an insight into the gaps between women and men in over 92% of the world’s.

Click on the link and learn more about the Report 2008.