You'll never guess which country has highest percentage of women in C-level positions
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To conduct the study, Nestpick first selected 100 countries around the globe which provide sufficient data and polling resources in order to gain a real understanding of women’s liveability in each place.
Top 5 countries for women in C-level positions:
Namibia
Latvia
Panama
Moldova
Slovenia
Namibia
Latvia
Panama
Moldova
Slovenia
We determined four important categories which affect women’s lives: Infrastructure, Inequality, Legislation and Work.
Within these categories, Nestpick looked at basic necessities such as health, safety and education which covers domestic violence rates, female life expectancy and female literacy rate, for example.
Worst countries for women in C-level positions:
Pakistan
Kenya
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Algeria
Pakistan
Kenya
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Algeria
Among other factors, Nestpick also calculated the ‘Equal Pay Day’ which is the day from which women essentially work for free until the end of the year due to the Gender Wage Gap.
As part of the research, Nestpick also polled female journalists from these 100 countries asking how they would rate life for women in their country, as well as which factors are most important to them.
Safety, Education and Health were overwhelmingly voted as the most important, so the final weighting of this index has been scored to give Infrastructure more importance in order to reflect this.
The final index ranks these 100 countries on how liveable they are for women, with those at the top of the index offering a higher quality of life, and those at the bottom offering a lower quality of life.
Namibia has the highest % of women in C-level positions, at 48.6%, followed by Latvia (44.1%) and Panama (43.5%).
The average gender wage gap for the 100 countries studied is 14.35%. With the World Economic Forum reporting that gender inequality is costing the economy $160 trillion in potential earnings, this data could be utilised to show how the income gap is affecting economic growth worldwide.
Estonia has the top score for female entrepreneurs, followed by Singapore and Iceland.
Iceland, Singapore and Sweden are the top 3 respectively for Women in Work.
You can take a look who the whole study looks like here. ■