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Wednesday, March 6th, 2019

Only six countries have equal rights for men and women, World Bank finds

Author:     Rob Picheta and Kieron Mirchandani
Source:     CNN
Publication Date:     1610 GMT (0010 HKT) March 2, 2019
Link: Only six countries have equal rights for men and women, World Bank finds
Stephan:   I have always considered gender equality a foundational premise of any true modern democracy and have believed that equal pay was the corollary to that. Over the years I have had several heated arguments on this issue and once, when I was in my early twenties, it became physical. That said, I recognize that until recently mine was a minority view. But the trend is clearly moving in that direction in developed nations. However, we are far from achieving it. Would it surprise you to learn that when it comes to gender equality the U.S. is not even in the top 50 nations and that in only six countries in the world do women and men enjoy equal rights? As this report describes only "Belgium, Denmark, France, Latvia, Luxembourg and."Sweden scored full marks of 100 in the bank's "Women, Business and the Law 2019" report."

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LONDON — The world is moving towards legal gender equality — but it’s moving very, very slowly.

Only six countries currently give women and men equal rights, a major report from the World Bank has found.
That’s an increase — from zero — compared to a decade ago, when the organization started measuring countries by how effectively they guarantee legal and economic equality between the genders.
But the rate of progress means that, by CNN calculations, women won’t achieve full equality in the areas studied by the World Bank until 2073.
Belgium, Denmark, France, Latvia, Luxembourg and Sweden scored full marks of 100 in the bank’s “Women, Business and the Law 2019” report.
Of those nations, France saw the biggest improvement over the past decade for implementing a domestic violence law, providing criminal penalties for workplace sexual harassment and introducing paid parental leave.
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