10 Countries With Huge Gender Gaps In The Workplace: Survey
Editorial:
From the Huffington Post:
A significant number of countries continue to struggle with a wide gender gap in the workplace -- a fourth to be exact, according to data recently released by Gallup. That gender gap is technically the difference between the number of men and women in full-time or voluntary part-time work.
The problem is not universal. For every Ecuador or Saudi Arabia, two countries with enormous gender gaps, there is a Ireland or United Kingdom, both of which were found to posses a gender gap that actually favors women.
That's not to say gender gaps only exist in developing countries. Italy, a member of the European Union, posted a workplace gender gap of 13 percent, the survey found.
The pollsters last year questioned 187,119 people across 144 countries.
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Source:
Huffington Post
URL:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/countries-women-work_n_1651946.html
Date:
July 9, 2012
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