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

[candamira.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Nordics. I always had that feeling that life in general is a bit more relaxed there. In the sense of a government not draining every ounce of energy from their citizens by ridiculous amounts of bureaucracy you have to stem in your free time or practically forcing both parents to have a job because maintaining a living is that expensive. I love the Nordics. If we weren't so happy with our current neighbourhood, and if husband didn't have that job he's enjoying, I think we'd try to move...

I have another fact you may find interesting: In Hamburg mothers aren't allowed to decide how many hours their children spend at the nursery/kindergarden. Some authority makes a calculation based on cumulated working hours of both parents and decides they get x hours of nursery/kiga time per day. Is that crass, or what? I'd hate it.

[nia_kantorka]

No way, hon. I won't let you move to Scandinavia. *grabs tight*

Well, I'm not tempted because those countries are just too cold for my liking. I barely make it through our own winters. No way I'm able to live in Norway or Finnland the whole year.

Hamburg. :O Didn't know that. Wow. Ok, living in Hamburg is cancelled. But visiting it is still an option. Such a lovely city...

[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