SED 6 - Mothers all around the world...

[nia_kantorka]

At work I screen lots of medical newsletters on a daily basis. Today I've stumbled over 'The State of the World's Mothers 2015' report. It compares the conditions of/for mothers all around the world (179 countries were included into the stats).

You find data about mother's health, mortality of children (under the age of 5), education, income and the influence women/mothers have in their countries (political status).

The best conditions to live have mothers in
1. Norway
2. Finnland
3. Iceland
4. Denmark
5. Sweden
6. Netherlands
7. Spain
8. Germany
9. Australia
10. Belgium

France takes place 23 in the ranking, the UK #24 and the US #33. And for some other friends who might be interested; Slovenia #15, Austria #11, Slovakia #34 and Bolivia #88. Worst are the conditions for mothers or children in Somalia #179.

It's really intersting though very frightening to learn the absolute numbers here.

Comments

[anemonen.livejournal.com]

For most people it's necessary for both parents to work here in Norway too. There's one year of paid leave split between the parents, but unless one of them has a very well paid job that's as long as one is able to stay at home. But there's mostly room for all the kids above one year to go to nursery school, so there is a good system to enable people to both work and have kids.

And Nia, it's not that cold here :P Well, not everywhere. Like, the south west coast have very mild winters. In Bergen, where I'm from, there's usually only a couple of days of snow each winter. The winter darkness, though. That's seriously depressing o_O