The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently released their 2016 Global Gender Gap Report, which ranks 145 countries on gender equality.

To do this, they examined how well each country was leveraging their female talent pool, based on economic, educational, health-based and political indicators.

Iceland claimed the top spot; the country boasts an all-female political party, the Women’s Alliance, as well as a parliament that's almost 50% female MPs.

Their maternity policies are also very forward-thinking; both parents receive three-months paid leave that is non-transferable, which has encouraged 90% of Icelandic fathers to take up their paternity leave. As a result, women are able to return to work faster than before – and that’s at their pre-childbirth working hours, too.

And it’s worth pointing out that the country was recently named the best for working women all over the world.

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