Canada Ranks Third-Best Country In The World To Be A Woman

First Posted: 09/22/11 11:12 AM ET Updated: 09/22/11 11:29 AM ET

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Postmedia News:

Canada is the third-best country in the world to be a woman, according to rankings compiled by U.S. website Newsweek/The Daily Beast. Canada trails only Iceland at No. 1 and second-place Sweden, and is also the only non-European country in the top seven.

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Canada is the third-best country in the world to be a woman, according to rankings compiled by U.S. website Newsweek/The Daily Beast. Canada trails only Iceland at No. 1 and second-place Sweden, and i...
Canada is the third-best country in the world to be a woman, according to rankings compiled by U.S. website Newsweek/The Daily Beast. Canada trails only Iceland at No. 1 and second-place Sweden, and i...
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viennawoods
An optimistic cynic.
10:32 PM on 11/17/2011
I always tell my female students that we are the luckiest women in the history of the world, to be living where we are, when we are. Then I teach them about life for women in 1900. I start with the corset. They very quickly "get it".
09:29 PM on 11/17/2011
Bull crap...as an American who actually moved to Canada in 2002 to get away from George Bush, I can tell you I have returned to the United States, and am glad to be back here. Stop this shilling for Canada...ask someone who has lived it

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/776476--canada-50th-in-participation-by-women-in-politics
Canada now ranks 50th on the world scale of women's participation in politics, trailing Pakistan, Bolivia and the United Arab Emirates.

http://www.womenonbusiness.com/female-leadership-on-the-decline-in-canada/
Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/947589--women-rising-to-executive-ranks-still-few-in-number
Women rising to executive ranks still few in number

http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/05/dont-tell-me-that-politics-in-canada-is.html
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