{"id":11428,"date":"2012-06-13T11:13:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/feature-poll-canada-best-g20-country-to-be-a-woman-india-worst\/"},"modified":"2012-06-13T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:13:50","slug":"feature-poll-canada-best-g20-country-to-be-a-woman-india-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/feature-poll-canada-best-g20-country-to-be-a-woman-india-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURE-POLL-Canada best G20 country to be a woman, India worst"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Katherine Baldwin<\/span><\/p>\n

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LONDON, June 13 (TrustLaw) – Policies that promote gender
\nequality, safeguards against violence and exploitation and
\naccess to healthcare make Canada the best place to be a woman
\namong the world’s biggest economies, a global poll of experts
\nshowed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Infanticide, child marriage and slavery make India the
\nworst, the same poll concluded.<\/p>\n

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Germany, Britain, Australia and France rounded out the top
\nfive countries out of the Group of 20 in a perceptions poll of
\n370 gender specialists conducted by TrustLaw, a legal news
\nservice run by Thomson Reuters Foundation.<\/p>\n

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The United States came in sixth but polarised opinion due to
\nconcerns about reproductive rights and affordable healthcare.<\/p>\n

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At the other end of the scale, Saudi Arabia – where women
\nare well educated but are banned from driving and only won the
\nright to vote in 2011 – polled second-worst after India,
\nfollowed by Indonesia, South Africa and Mexico.<\/p>\n

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“India is incredibly poor, Saudi Arabia is very rich. But
\nthere is a commonality and that is that unless you have some
\nspecial access to privilege, you have a very different future,
\ndepending on whether you have an extra X chromosome, or a Y
\nchromosome,” said Nicholas Kristof, journalist and co-author of
\n“Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women
\nWorldwide”, commenting on the poll results.<\/p>\n

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The poll, released ahead of a summit of G20 heads of state
\nto be held in Mexico June 18-19, showed the reality for many
\nwomen in many countries remains grim despite the introduction of
\nlaws and treaties on women’s rights, experts said.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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