Canada is the third-best country in the world to be a woman, according to rankings compiled by U.S. website Newsweek/The Daily Beast.
Canada trails only Iceland at No. 1 and second-place Sweden, and is also the only non-European country in the top seven. The United States is eighth.
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The makers of these rankings gave Canada an overall score of 96.6 out of a possible 100. In the major categories judged, the country earned a full 100 points on justice, 92.7 on health, 92 on education, 91 on economics and 66.9 on politics.
Newsweek said that Canada’s “female representation in government lags behind.”
The African country of Chad was deemed the worst country to be a woman.
“Women have almost no legal rights in Chad and most marriages are arranged when girls are 11 or 12,” the website said.
Afghanistan, where Canada recently ended about a decade of military combat, was deemed the second-worst country to be a woman. Newsweek said 90 per cent of females there are illiterate and 85 per cent of births happen with no medical assistance.
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