Gender: Gender Gap and Australia

gender: This reflects "the continued existence of a gender gap in income for Australia" and the rise of other nations on the measure since 2006, when Australia ranked 15th, according to Nine News Australia. Australia ranking reflects a score of 0.72 points, which was unchanged from a decade ago. Australia ranks 46 out of 144 countries in the group latest global gender gap index measuring women earnings and job opportunities against that of men. It now ranks under the US, on 45, and a long way below New Zealand, which cracked the top 10 countries at nine. The report pointed to the importance of government investment in child care support for women, to boost workforce participation as well as to create jobs. Overall, Iceland and Finland ranked highest on progress in equality in education, health and survival, economic opportunity and political empowerment. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.