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Swiss closing some gender equality gaps

This content was published on Nov 1, 2011 There are equal women-to-men literacy rates and enrollments in higher education but Switzerland fell down over wage equality (ranked 80th), women in managerial and legislative positions (58th) and women in parliament (24th). In last year’s report Switzerland was also ranked tenth overall. WEF’s Global Gender Gap Index measured disparities in salaries, workforce participation, highly-skilled employment,…