Top 10 economies where women call the shots

Italinan women also occupy 29 percent of board positions.

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic in Southern Europe. Italy has a market economy characterized by high per capita GDP and low unemployment rates. In 2012, it was the ninth-largest economy in the world and the fifth-largest in Europe in terms of nominal GDP and the 10th-largest economy in the world and fourth-largest in Europe in terms of PPP. It is a founding member of the G7, G8, the Eurozone and the OECD. [Chinanews.com]