NZ women more equal than others
Stuff is reporting on this year’s “Global Gender Gap Report” from the World Economic Forum. New Zealand has improved very slightly over last year in its gender equality score, but has lost 5th place in the rankings to Ireland, which had greater improvement. The biggest improver was Yemen, whose situation went from dire to merely awful, though it is still last. Colombia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka had the biggest falls.
One thing Stuff did get wrong: the rankings are based on a complicated “gender gap score”, not just on pay equity. New Zealand still does slightly better on pay equity than Ireland, but Ireland does better on having women in senior positions.
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If we look at the original summary report (http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-2011/) then New Zealand falls from 5th place to 6th place in a year because our aggregate score went from 0.781 to… 0.781.
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