Sweden has the highest percentage of working women at 81%.

There is a 32% salary gap between women and men in Israel; in addition, "it is commonplace to supplement a worker's salary with telephone, car and clothing allowances, as well as with other [valuable] benefits... surveys indicated that even when women earned the same base salary as men, they were often forced to pay for their own work clothes, gas and car insurance," reports the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

More women than men graduate from high school and university in Iceland, but women earn only 60 cents for every dollar that men earn.

In the United States, women earn 76 cents for every dollar that men earn; however, Working Woman magazine notes "In many categories, women are actually narrowing that gap by a substantial amount. Female engineers make nearly 94% of what men do, female college deans make 96% of their male colleagues' salaries, and corporate lawyers make 92%".

Women make up 42% of the paid workforce in Southeast Asia.

Australian women earn 66.19% of what men earn.

Women in Tasmania worked in a paid position an average of 26.6 hours per week compared with 37.7 hours a week for men:  women earned 83% of the average earnings (excluding overtime) of their male counterparts.

Canadian women earn 66 cents for every dollar men earn.