Gender Equality in Scandinavia V.

United States
Scandinavia United States
Iceland has the highest ranking in the world
for political power of woman. Female heads
of state in their country 20 years out of the
last 50.
In our current year of 2014, woman only hold
98 out of the 535 seats in congress (A low
18%).
Salary gap differences between men and
woman are narrow, and almost the same.
Typically, women make around 20% less of a
salary than men do in the work force.
Some female leaders in the Nordic states are
Mari Kiviniemi in Finland, and Helle-
Thorning-Schmidt in Denmark.
The United States has never held a female
president.
It is prioritized that men and women have
plentiful and equal vacation time.
It was reported that for most men and SOME
women, they are given a certain amount of
vacation time, but depending on what job, it
doesnt guarentee payment for that time.
Wages for citizens has been around the same
for the past few decades, and looks as
though it will continue to stay like that.
Since 1979, female wages has gone up
around 33%, while its 22% for men. It is
getting better for the female population, but
clearly still has some improving to do.

After my findings, I have come to the conclusion that gender equality is very different in these
two parts of the world. For example, even though the United States has a strong education
system for females, their place in the countries government could use a lot of improving, and
vise versa for Nordic States. Scandinavia has some of the highest gender equality rankings in
the world, when the United States is far from there. Hopefully at some point the United States
will be just as narrow as the Nordic States in comparisons between men and woman.