Today is International Women's Day and you can find out more here.
For the past nine years the World Economic Forum have produced a report
with the Global Gender Gap (GGG) Index for countries all across the
world.
The 2014 report
is now available and it does not really make good reading for a rich
and well developed nation like the UK, which is ranked 26 out 142
countries. The UK is unsurprisingly behind the Scandinavian countries
which are known for their good gender equality, but the UK is also
behind countries like Nicaragua, Rwanda, Latvia, Burundi, Ecuador, Slovenia and Bulgaria. The full rankings can be found here.
The UK is ranked 48 out of 142 countries for wage equality.
The detailed gender equality analysis for the UK can be found here and is shows we still have a long way to go to get full
gender equality.
UNISON is the UK's largest public sector trade union with over 1.3m members. The West Midlands region has over 115,000 members working in Local Government, the NHS, FE, Police, HE, Transport and Energy
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