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This article talks about women's rights across the world. The article lists countries who rank the highest and countries who rank the lowest. The United States surprisingly falls lower than expected. No country is ranked a perfect 100% but there are countries who come close, USA not being one of them.

Such a shame from a country that widely considers itself advocates for equal rights. There are many of us that recognize this same concept, that being gender inequalities and pay gaps still exist, and advocate for that to be abolished. With the recent advances in how sensitive our society is regarding social issues, how long is this really going to take? One would think that we, as a culture of the U.S., would have already arrived to a point of true gender equality.

This is a very interesting article. I knew there is a significant pay gap within the U.S. and was honestly surprised to see it so high up. As someone else said, it certainly is a shame that we are so low yet consider the US to be one of the most progressive countries with social issues.

This article explains the wage gap between men and women in the work force. Equality in wages has improved since a long time, but there is still a long way to go.

The grassroots activists from the Self Employed Women's Association spoke to a panel on the informal economy at the ITUC Congress in Berlin. Founded in India out of exploitation of women works from the informal sector, the two million member coalition spoke of their hardships and interaction with their formal sector employers. Through power in numbers SEWA has gained momentum in their fight for workers' rights and pay equality. 40% of the global economy consists of the expanding members of the informal sector.