Denmark continues its streak of being counted among top countries in a variety of subjects; now it joins its fellow Nordic countries by being the fifth place country for gender equality, reports Ice News.
This is the first time the country has cracked the top five in this gender report. Last year Denmark ranked eighth.
The Global Gender Gap 2014 report, recently published by the World Economic Forum, ranked Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark as the top five countries respectively.
The aim of the annual report, first published in 2006, is to assess how nations distribute resources and opportunities equitably between men and women across several categories and measures the gap between the genders.
Denmark ranked first in educational attainment in all subareas – literacy rate and enrolment in primary, secondary and tertiary education. Denmark has been ranked consistently as first in this category since 2006.
The country ranked seventh overall in political empowerment, twelfth overall in economic participation and opportunity, but ranked 65th in health and survival in regards to sex ratio at birth and health life expectancy.
