To coincide with Worldwide Ladies’s Day on 8 March, The Economist publishes an annual research on the very best locations to be a working lady throughout the OECD. This 12 months, Switzerland is ranked twenty sixth out of 29 nations, the identical place as final 12 months. Solely Japan, Turkey and South Korea rank decrease.
The principle cause behind Switzerland’s poor rank is probably going well-known to most households the place each mum and pa work: the excessive value childcare.
Switzerland has the very best childcare prices within the OECD. The typical value throughout the OECD is 14% of the typical wage. In Switzerland the typical is 49% of the typical wage. Nurseries are costly and pay for knowledgeable nannies can vary from round CHF 40,000 to CHF 80,000 a 12 months relying on location. Nannies value extra in Zurich, Basel and Geneva than they do in London and New York. Though not coated by The Economist research, one other childcare problem in Switzerland is faculties usually closing for lunch. This leaves households with a lunchtime care hole.
As well as, Switzerland presents little parental depart to younger dad and mom. New moms get 7.8 weeks and new fathers get 1.1 weeks. The OECD averages are 31.6 and eight weeks.
Switzerland, with a spot of -4.8 factors in comparison with an OECD common of +8 factors in favour of girls, scores comparatively poorly when evaluating female and male graduate charges. Though, the widespread hole in favour of girls – an OECD common of +8, which works as excessive as +20 in Iceland – begs the query of whether or not some training methods may now be failing males?
Switzerland’s rating on training can be considerably deceptive. The Economist appears on the distinction within the variety of female and male graduates between the ages of 25 and 64. The drag of historical past pulls Switzerland down on this measure – huge variations on the older finish of this age vary swamp the small and generally inverse variations on the youthful finish. And given the youthful finish displays the current previous it could be extra significant to concentrate on this as a gauge of the place Switzerland presently stands. Information from 2023 illustrate the impression of age on the outcomes. Solely 39% of docs in Switzerland 45 years previous and over had been ladies, an imbalance that swings the opposite means amongst youthful docs – 61% of docs below 45 are ladies. One other measure of the training hole utilized by The Economist within the research largely avoids this drawback. It appears on the numbers of women and men taking the GMAT, a check required to use to enterprise faculty. Right here it have a look at solely the final 10 years. On this measure Switzerland is forward with 37.7% ladies versus an OECD common of 35.6%.
Lastly, in enterprise and politics ladies in Switzerland are doing comparatively effectively with above common board reprsentation (34.4% versus 32.9%) and variety of seats in parliament (38.5% versus 34.1%). Though they path a bit on managerial positions (32.4% versus an OECD common of 34.0%).
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The Economist report (in English)
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