Worldwide it is estimated that women earn 19 per cent less than men do, a gap that parity laws have attempted to close with mixed results. — Picture courtesy of hyejin kang / IStock.comPARIS, Mar 7 — While International Women’s Day on March 8 celebrates female gains like the right to vote, a World Economic Forum study found that at present rates of change gender parity still won’t happen in our lifetimes.New Zealand was first to give all women — white and Maori — the right to vote in 1893.
Saudi Arabia decided to give its female subjects a voice in municipal polls in 2011 — the kingdom’s only elections.Worldwide it is estimated that women earn 19 per cent less than men do, a gap that parity laws have attempted to close with mixed results. Even when women do advance to higher-earning positions they continue to make less, with women managers in the EU earning an average of 23 per cent less than men in the same jobs.
The contraceptive pill was invented by a US doctor in the 1950s and became legal for women there in 1960.However, in all of these countries women must obtain a doctor’s prescription to get the pill.Sweden is the best country for paid parental leave with a new mother or father able to take up to 480 days off and continue to earn 80 per cent of his or her salary in addition to 18 weeks off reserved just for the new mother.
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