Rwanda ranks higher in gender equality than Canada: report

Women around the world only have 118 more years to go before they’re paid as much as men, according to the 2015 Global Gender Gap Report.

In Canada, the outlook is a little brighter: we only have 47-and-a-half years to go to reach gender parity (at least if things keep going at the current pace).

Our country currently ranks 30th out of 145 countries examined by the World Economic Forum.

Its 10th annual study looks at the gender gap on the following fronts:

• Economic participation and opportunity (salaries, participation in the workforce and leadership)
• Education (access to basic and higher levels of education)
• Political empowerment(representation in decision-making structures)
• Health and survival (life expectancy and sex ratio at birth)

Canada came in behind Cuba (#29) and the U.S. (#28).

Seventeen European countries beat us (the Nordic nations — Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden — took the top four spots; the three least equitable countries were Syria, Pakistan and Yemen).