Sweden, iceland, finland and norway sit at the of the index as the best place to be a working woman. Nearly half of all parliamentary seats in these countries are occupied by women. Female executives have at least third of seats on listed company boards. In iceland, forty seven % of all board seats are held by women.
With the propaganda machine at fever pitch, not everyone in Russia agrees on—much less agrees with—what is going on in Ukraine. Dissent is being met with increasing repression. A wave of jihadism is crashing across the states of West Africa and the battle lines are moving south. And reasons for both hope and concern in our annual glass-ceiling index.
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