Countries With The Best And Worst Environments For Working Women: 2018 Report

It’s not a big surprise that Sweden is the best country to be a working woman, according to the 2018 edition of the Economist’s glass-ceiling index, which took over the top ranking from Iceland. The glass-ceiling index measures how well OECD countries perform when it comes to equality for working women.

Sweden comes out top as the best country for working women, followed by fellow Nordic nations Norway, Iceland, and Finland. The fifth spot was taken by France this year.

The United Kingdom fell from 22nd to 25th place, and the United States went up from 20th to 19th place.

The countries with the worst environments for working women were South Korea, Japan, and Turkey.

Countries With The Best And Worst Environments For Working Women: 2018 Report:

1. Sweden
2. Norway
3. Iceland
4. Finland
5. France
6. Denmark
7. Poland
8. Belgium
9. Hungary
10. Canada
11. Portugal
12. New Zealand
13. Slovakia
14. Israel
15. Spain
16. Australia
17. Italy
18. Austria
19. United States
20. Germany
21. Ireland
22. Czech Republic
23. Greece
24. Netherlands
25. United Kingdom
26. Switzerland
27. Turkey
28. Japan
29. South Korea

These are the countries with the best and worst environments for working women: 2018 Report

Each OECD country’s score is a weighted average of its performance across nine indicators: higher education gap; labour-force participation; wage gap; share of senior managers who are women; women on company boards; childcare costs; paid maternity leave; share of GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) candidates; and women in parliament.