Gender Gap USA

My friend in France, Andre Berthou, tells me that France is #15 on the list of top countries in the world for women's status, as listed by the World Economic Forum.

http://www.gouvernement.fr/10-avancees-pour-les-droits-des-femmes-depuis-2012-et-pas-que-le-8mars-3965

I shudder to think where the US ranks.  My guess is #30.

We don't have equal rights for women in our constitution.  We don't have much child care.  Women earn maybe 80 cents for every dollar men earn.

Well, I was very close.  The US ranks #28, just a smidgen ahead of Cuba.  

Countries with better status of women include Rwanda, the Philippines, Slovenia, Nicaragua, Namibia, Burundi, Barbados and Mozambique.

http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2015

Here are the top 30 nations in the Global Gender Gap Report for 2015, Table 3 on page 16.

The four categories, each with a rank and score, are
1) Economic participation and opportunity
2) Educational attainment
3) Health and survival
4) Political empowerment.

The first rank with a score (overall status of women) is an average of the scores in the four categories.

Country Rank Score Rank Score Rank Score Rank Score Rank Score 
Iceland 1 0.881 5 0.836 1 1.000 105 0.970 1 0.719 
Norway 2 0.850 1 0.868 32 1.000 70 0.974 3 0.559 
Finland 3 0.850 8 0.815 1 1.000 1 0.980 2 0.607 
Sweden 4 0.823 4 0.836 54 0.996 71 0.974 5 0.486 
Ireland 5 0.807 26 0.777 44 0.998 56 0.979 6 0.474 
Rwanda 6 0.794 14 0.808 112 0.944 91 0.972 7 0.452 
Philippines 7 0.790 16 0.799 34 1.000 1 0.980 17 0.382 
Switzerland 8 0.785 17 0.798 69 0.993 74 0.974 18 0.376 
Slovenia 9 0.784 24 0.778 29 1.000 79 0.973 16 0.385 
New Zealand 10 0.782 30 0.768 1 1.000 105 0.970 15 0.390 
Germany 11 0.779 38 0.737 88 0.987 56 0.979 11 0.413 
Nicaragua 12 0.776 100 0.619 1 1.000 1 0.980 4 0.506 
Netherlands 13 0.776 39 0.732 1 1.000 104 0.970 13 0.401 
Denmark 14 0.767 20 0.788 1 1.000 107 0.970 29 0.309 
France 15 0.761 56 0.699 1 1.000 1 0.980 19 0.365 
Namibia 16 0.760 27 0.775 1 1.000 1 0.980 33 0.287 
South Africa 17 0.759 72 0.670 85 0.987 1 0.980 14 0.400 
United Kingdom 18 0.758 43 0.724 37 1.000 66 0.974 23 0.335 
Belgium 19 0.753 34 0.762 1 1.000 66 0.974 35 0.275 
Latvia 20 0.752 21 0.784 1 1.000 1 0.980 40 0.246 
Estonia 21 0.749 47 0.711 39 0.999 1 0.980 30 0.308 
Bolivia 22 0.749 96 0.634 101 0.967 1 0.980 10 0.415 
Burundi 23 0.748 3 0.845 131 0.857 68 0.974 28 0.314 
Barbados 24 0.744 2 0.848 46 0.998 1 0.980 77 0.150
Spain 25 0.742 67 0.674 47 0.998 93 0.972 26 0.326 
Moldova 26 0.742 18 0.797 50 0.996 42 0.979 58 0.195 
Mozambique 27 0.741 29 0.773 129 0.860 114 0.968 21 0.361 
United States 28 0.740 6 0.826 40 0.999 64 0.975 72 0.162 
Cuba 29 0.740 119 0.579 26 1.000 63 0.975 12 0.407 
Canada 30 0.740 28 0.773 1 1.000 109 0.969 46 0.218

and on --ranking 140 countries on things like child care, gender differences in pay, number of women/men in government...

As I told my friend Andre, I need to move to France.  Or any of those top 10-15 nations.  

Maybe I'd like Rwanda.