Oldie but Baddie

The Global Gender Gap report for 2008 will be released on November 12th. Until then, here's last year's status for the U.S.

"The United States slipped in this year's scorecard measuring equality between women and men while Nordic countries remained at the top of the list and Muslim countries at the bottom.

No country managed to close the gender gap entirely, the Swiss-based World Economic Forum found, but women in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland came closest to achieving equality with men in education, employment, health and politics."

Read more here.