Gender Roles

WOMEN 

Norway VS Colombia

General view

According to World, Trade Press Norway has one of the highest proportions of working women in the world, with about 69% of women employed compared to 74% of men. Contrast to Colombia, women do not have as much prominence in the labor sector.
Favorable laws, the presence of a gender equality ombudsman, high educational standards among women, and the liberated attitudes of Norwegian women are credited with women’s success in business and the professions. Norway has some of the best gender-equality practices in the world and ranks second behind Canada on the gender-related development index.Legal Rights Women enjoy all legal rights on a par with men. They were granted the full right to vote in 1913 and had been allowed to vote on special issues for decades before then. in Colombia it is a little different, in the last decades it has achieved important conquests in relation to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women, although there are still significant gaps to be reduced and the right to vote was obtained in 1957.
There are only about 21 women at the director level out of a total of 488 directors, and about 10 percent of the major companies do not have any women executives on their boards. Women’s representation at the top level in the central government is also less than men’s, despite the fact that 45 percent of the government workforce is made up of women. In Colombia it is similar, the highest positions are dominated by men.

Dating, Marriage and Family 

The liberated women of Norway have the full freedom to choose their partners, male or female, inside marriage or outside of it. According to some sources, the institution of marriage is slowly becoming extinct. About 60 percent of Norwegian children are born to unmarried mothers. Norwegian women can also legally have a lesbian marriage, in Colombia it's the same, although there is still a taboo against homosexual marriages. The legal age of consent for marriage is 18 for women. The average age at marriage is 26.3 years for women and 29.8 years for men. Women can decide whether or not to take their husband’s name after marriage. As in Colombia 

Reference 

World, Trade Press. Norway Society & Culture Complete Report : An All-Inclusive Profile Combining All of Our Society and Culture Reports, World Trade Press, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ezproxy.uninorte.edu.co:2113/lib/unorte-ebooks/detail.action?docID=536152.