Bounce, a luggage storage company, looked at data on various aspects of gender equality and safety for women, including domestic violence laws, homicide rates and how safe women feel walking at night in their country, in order to create a ranking list. month. According to the list, the safest country for women to travel to alone is Ireland, with Austria, Norway, Slovenia and Switzerland rounding out the top five. “The Emerald Isle scores highly for the laws it has in place to protect women from violence, as well as local attitudes to violence against women,” said the study of Ireland’s top ranking. Spain came in sixth, followed by Portugal, Canada, the Netherlands and Poland, to round out the top 10. Canada scored 6.67 out of ten for its overall safety for women traveling alone, compared to Ireland’s 7.88. Colombia was considered the least safe for women to travel alone of the 34 countries included. But the United States barely earned it, coming in at 32nd on the list just above Costa Rica. The assessment was based on seven different metrics, including the percentage of women in that country who reported experiencing violence, the number of homicide victims per 100,000 women, the percentage of women who reported feeling safe walking alone at night, the percentage of women in this country who agree that a husband can be justified in abusing his wife and how strong the laws are in this country regarding domestic violence. It also included each country’s ranking on a generalized safety index created by Numbeo, a large database of user-contributed data, and the country’s ranking in the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender Gap Report. All seven categories are added to an overall safety score. Canada ranked first in one of the individual categories, with the study finding that Canada had the lowest rate of reported domestic violence. “In Canada, just 1.9 percent of women say they have experienced violence from a partner in their lifetime, which is 20 times lower than in the worst country on the list,” the study said. Canada was also tied with more than 10 other countries for having the best domestic violence laws that offer “women protection from domestic violence, without discriminating against women’s rights.” Japan, ranked 11th, and Norway had the lowest female homicide rates and Norway scored the highest for feeling safe walking at night, while Ireland had the lowest acceptance rate of violence against women, with just one percent of women say they think a man is sometimes justified in hitting his partner. Most categories used data collected by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an organization that collects socio-economic data from its member countries for research and policy analysis. Almost 40 countries are part of the OECD, including Canada. The percentage of women who feel safe walking at night came from a specific 2021 OECD survey, while the homicide data came from the World Bank.
