For the sixth consecutive year Iceland has come out best in the World Economic Forum’s gender-gap index, which examines disparities between men and women in terms of political empowerment, economic opportunity, health and education. It scored 0.86 on an index in which one denotes perfect equality. The Nordic countries all did well, taking the top five positions of the 142 countries in the ranking.
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