Poland among the best countries to be a working woman

Finland, Norway, Sweden or maybe Poland?

These is the top selection of the best countries for women to work and live, according to “the Economist”.

The criteria used for making the list are: education, salary, child-care costs, share of business school applications, mothers’ rights, and also the number of women in top, specialist positions and share of women workforce on the job market.

The top of the ranking is taken by the aforementioned Scandinavian countries, which is not surprising taking into account the fact that the region is famous for women’s’ activity both in business and in politics. Poland takes the fourth spot on the list.

As much as 40% of Polish women work in managerial positions, we have the longest paid maternity leave and a substantial percentage of women applying to business schools. A lot has changed here since the old days.

Not everywhere the changes are evident, even though women have been fighting for their rights for year, in many places around the world they are treated as second-class citizens and their salaries are much lower than those of men at the same positions. That is the case for example in Turkey, which closes the ranking. Only 10% of women work in managerial positions there. Female specialists are lacked in South Korea and Japan as well.