CREATIVE RETIREMENT
GREAT DECISIONS II
TOPIC -- Theme of Personal Interest Club
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n . Women Issues. -- 00 Xxxx'09,

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Jim's Pre-Meeting notes.
Gender Equality 2008

Rank	Country	Score
1	Norway	0.824
2	Finland	0.820
3	Sweden	0.814
4	Iceland	0.800
5	N. Zealand	0.786
6	Philippines	0.757
7	Denmark	0.754
8	Ireland	0.752
9	Netherlands	0.740
10	Latvia	0.740
27	United States	0.718
*0 to 1 scale: 0=inequality, 1=equality

U.S.A. 2007
The United States (27) gains 4 places in the rankings this year, driven by across the board improvements in the four
 subindexes. Given the very tight differentials between country scores on educational attainment, small 
improvements in this subindex lead to a marked increase in the ranking on this subindex (from 76th position in 
2007 to 1st position in 2008). These gains are accompanied by improvements in both the economic participation
and opportunity subindex and in the political empowerment subindex, driven by gains in perceived wage equality 
for similar work, percentage of women in parliamentary level positions and percentage of women in ministerial 
level positions. The United States now holds 56th position in the political empowerment subindex up from 69th
 position in 2007.
Economic Pariticipation		Educational Attainment		Health and Survival		Political Empowerment	
12	0.7524				1	1.0000				 37	0.9795			56	0.1398

   Economic is ratio of women pay over men.
   Education is number of women in school vs. men.
   Health is ratio of woman life expectancy over male.
   Political is ratio of elected to office including number of last 50 years with woman head of state.


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