Economist, Mar 8, 2014 (I)

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Women and work | The Glass-Ceiling Index; The best—and worst—places to be a working woman.
www.economist.com/news/business/ ... glass-ceiling-index

Quote:

“AS IT is International Women’s Day on March 8th, The Economist has created a “glass-ceiling index”, to show where women have the best chances of equal treatment at work. It combines data on higher education, labour-force participation, pay, child-care costs, maternity rights, business-school applications and representation in senior jobs. Each country’s score is a weighted average of its performance on nine indicators.

Note: “To no one’s surprise, Nordic countries come out well * * * Finland and Sweden were among the first countries to allow women to vote and stand for election. Yet even there women are paid less than men for similar work. In Finland and Sweden the [pay] gap [between men and women workers] is close to the OECD average of 15%, though in Norway it has fallen to 8%. South Korea[‘s pay gap is], at 37%, the largest in the OECD.”

Women's suffrage
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage

* Quote:

“Limited voting rights were gained by women in Sweden, Finland and some western US states in the late 19th century

“In 1893, New Zealand, then a self-governing British colony, granted adult women the right to vote and the self-governing British colony of South Australia did the same in 1895, the latter also permitting women to stand for office. Australia federated in 1901, and women acquired the right to vote and stand in federal elections from 1902, but discriminatory restrictions against Aboriginal women (and men) voting in national elections were not completely removed until 1962. The first European country to introduce women's suffrage was the Grand Duchy of Finland [1906],  then part of the Russian Empire, which elected the world's first female members of parliament in the 1907 parliamentary elections. Norway followed, granting full women's suffrage in 1913.

* section 3 Summary:
China 1947 [as Republic of China then]
Denmark 1915
France 1944
Germany 1918
India 1947
Japan 1947
Korea, North 1946
Korea, South 1948
Sweden 1921
Switzerland 1971
Taiwan 1947
UK ---“1918 (partial) (Then including Ireland), 1928 (full)[;] From 1918-1928, women could vote at 30 with property qualifications or as graduates of UK universities, while men could vote at 21 with no qualification.”
US 1920