A report from the World Economic Forum finds that 67% of countries are improving their gender equality, while 33% are getting worse.
The World Economic Forum released its annual Global Gender Gap Index Tuesday, a comprehensive ranking of gender gaps across the world. As in past years, the Nordic countries came out on top, but the U.S. and UK slipped down the list.
The report examined 134 countries, totaling 93% of the world's population. Aiming to level the playing field among rich and developing nations, authors Laura Tyson, business and economics professor at U.C. Berkeley, Saadia Zahidi, head of the forum's Women Leaders and Gender Parity Programme, and Ricardo Hausmann, director of the Centre for International Development at Harvard, examined women's access to resources and opportunities regardless of the total number of resources available. Countries were measured by levels of women's health, education, economic participation and political empowerment.
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