Finland is the world's fourth best country for women

The nordic countries hold the top position in the World economic forum's gender equality measure in the report. 2018 report, the number one place in Iceland. Joakim Honkasalo/Unsplash

the World economic forum, according to the report, Finland has a woman for the fourth best country in the world. Finland's ranking fell again, in one place, just like in 2017 in comparison. In 2016, the World economic forum report, Finland was ranked second place..

Read the year 2017 the report here: Finland's ranking fell, the gender equality measure study - fortunately, however, only in one place

an International report was published on Monday 17. December. The equality report has been published annually since 2006.

the Report examines gender equality in four different areas: economy-related matters (including employment opportunities), education, health and political participation rate.

Education Usa is a global model student: according to the report, Finland is the only top rank will reach to the Nordic countries, which has managed to bridge the gender between the mismatch of schooling between overgrown. For example, the whole report ykkösmaa Iceland ranked in this section, only number 39.

in the Economic participation rate of Finnish inequality instead of growth, the report warns. It is concerned that the number of women in, inter alia, legislative bodies and executive groups is decreasing.

for Comparison: in 2006, Finland was ranked the economic aspects of measure in the subsection to eighth in the worldwide comparison. This year in in the same category in only 17. place.

Finland's ranking will fall also, inter alia, men's lower life expectancy and the fact that men are still more women to political decision-making power, which is reflected for example, in the minister's portfolio the distribution of gender.

what kind of countries, among them Finland, then a ranked list? The world economic forum equality measurement report tip kymmenikkö looks like this:

iceland norway sweden finland nicaragua rwanda new zealand phil ippi ireland namibia

the Stage 5 reaches the Nicaragua government, is a worldwide record-breaking number of women, and also Rwanda (6. place) is a successful women decision-makers when looking at the number.

for Example, the united states instead ended up in comparison only ranked 51, Russia again ranked 75.

the Comparison was involved in 149 countries, of which the worst was doing in Yemen.

In 2018, the comparison was included in the five new countries which are not in previous years been included in the comparison: the democratic republic of the Congo, Iraq, Oman, Sierra Leone and the Togolese republic.

Source: World economic forum report 2018