Recognised Organisations and Comissioned Government reports detailing statistics about womens place in the UK today
Recognised and commissioned reports from government and charities including statistical information detailing womens place and situation in the UK in 2013
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published a comprehensive series of reports annually since 2006 for 136 countries. They have reported this year (2013) that many countries have been working hard to closed the gender equality gap in the past year. Unfortunately the UK has yet again failed to progress. The rankings of note are:
Overall ranking 18th (following a steady decline from 9th place since 2006).
Areas of concern include:
97th for healthy life expectancy for women
71st for helping women find professional and technical positions
59th for securing ministerial jobs
54th for getting women into parliament
35th for economic gender equality
31st for educational attainment
29th Political attainment
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Dissapointing results for UK in 2013 World Economic Forum (WEF) Report on gender equality gap >
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2013 UN Session of the commission on the status of women Conclusions .. >
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2013 - Government report into women in parliament historic and now .. >
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2013 - Counting Women in Report "Sex and Power, Who Runs Britain?" ..>