{"id":3351,"date":"2012-03-28T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2012-03-28T01:23:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T05:23:31","slug":"four-surprisingly-welcoming-countries-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/four-surprisingly-welcoming-countries-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Surprisingly Welcoming Countries for Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/032612_0610_FourSurpris1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Women do two-thirds of the world&#8217;s work, yet only make 10% of the world&#8217;s money meaning that there&#8217;s still a lot of work to be done in the quest for gender equality. Western European countries are normally held up as the pinnacle of female\/male equality but David Kenner and Uri Friedman at <em>Foreign Policy <\/em>note that some surprising countries have made rapid strides. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Philippines is the most impressive Asian country on the list.<\/li>\n<li>Spain which in the 1970s didn&#8217;t allow women to serve as witnesses or open bank accounts had, in 2011, more women than men in the country&#8217;s cabinet.<\/li>\n<li>South Africa and Lesotho are the best sub-Saharan African countries for women. Lesotho managed to edge out its much larger neighbor in the rankings.<\/li>\n<li>71% of Latvia&#8217;s university graduates are female, and the supreme court is evenly split between men and women.<\/li>\n<li>Cuba comes out top among Latin American countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about each of these countries, the substantial effort that most of these countries still have to make, and the (sometimes male) feminists that drove these achievements click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/03\/07\/five_surprisingly_good_places_to_be_a_woman\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/03\/07\/five_surprisingly_good_places_to_be_a_woman\"><em>Foreign Policy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2012\/03\/12\/women-thinking-about-relocating\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women do two-thirds of the world&#8217;s work, yet only make 10% of the world&#8217;s money meaning that there&#8217;s still a lot of work to be done in the quest for gender equality. Western European countries are normally held up as the pinnacle of female\/male equality but David Kenner and Uri Friedman at Foreign Policy note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/032612_0610_FourSurpris1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions\/3406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}