The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) on Thursday published the sixth edition of it’s annual study of gender equality in the domains of health, knowledge, money, power, free time and working life in the 27-country bloc. Finland took the fifth position in the latest ranking of gender equality in European Union countries.
Health – namely, mental health, sexual and reproductive health and the health effects of the coronavirus pandemic is the basis of the latest report. The majority of the data that was used is from 2019.
The top three of the index was made up by Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. Also France outperformed Finland, as both of the countries slipped one spot from the previous year. The worst-performing member states were Greece, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Poland, Helsinki Times reported.
Luxembourg, Lithuania and the Netherlands improved their ranking in the latest report.
Gender equality is one of the topics that has represented and continues to represent, one of the most important objectives of the European Union. Indeed, the EU, through its main institutions, has always focused on reducing the tremendous gap that existed – and in some ways still exists – firstly in Europe and subsequently in the rest of the world.
According to Helsinki Times, Finland came in fourth in three of the six domains examined: money, power and time. Its eighth-place ranking in the domain of work was mostly a consequence of its mediocre performance in the sub-domain of segregation and quality of work, and its ninth-place ranking in the domain of health a consequence of its worse-than-average performance in the sub-domains of status and access.
Knowledge was the only domain where the country fared worse than the EU average, coming in 11th.
The commitment of the European bodies over time has been to equalize the positions of men and women in all contexts of public, social and economic life, in order to implement the duties established by the Member States in their common agreements.
