Good news for the adverseley-gendered, for the gender gap is closing (slowly). In a report on economic equality from the World Economic Forum Iceland tops the charts for a fourth year running, followed by Finland, Norway, Sweden and Ireland.
Eighty-two out of 132 countries improved equality over the last year. The gap in the USA, Japan and Germany also narowed, although it widened in the UK and China.
Here's a heatmap showing the current situation from the Forum:
If a country's gender gap narrows this tends correlate with a rise in national competitiveness. According to the report:
Because women account for one-half of a country’s potential talent base, a nation’s competitiveness in the long term depends significantly on whether and how it educates and utilizes its women.