The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the organization behind the World Happiness Report, uses six factors to score countries' happiness: social support, income, health, freedom, generosity and absence of corruption.
The WEF compares countries' gender gaps across four dimensions: economic opportunities; educational attainment; health and survival; and political empowerment.
It's no coincidence that the world's happiest countries also champion gender equality socially and economically.
How Nordic countries use social policies to promote gender equality and happinessIn its research, the WEF establishes a clear correlation between social policies, families' happiness and women's career advancement.
The Nordic countries — Iceland, Sweden, Finland and Norway — have some of the most generous paid leave policies for parents in the world.
Persons:
Alexa, Norway's, Linda Akeson McGurk, McGurk
Organizations:
UN Sustainable Development Solutions, Sweden, Organisation for Economic Co, Development
Locations:
American, Bergen, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, New Zealand, U.S, Swedish