PHA-Exchange> Women's Empowerment: Measuring the Global Gender Gap

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From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 

Women's Empowerment: Measuring the Global Gender Gap
 

World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Programme, May 16, 2005 

The Report (PDF; 23pgs; 220k)

 

Interview: with Co-Author, Saadia Zahidi - Press release

"..The Forum has undertaken this study to facilitate the work of governments, aid agencies and NGOs by providing a benchmarking tool to assess the size of the gender gap, ranking countries according to the level of advancement of their female population. 

The Gender Gap Report quantifies the size of the gender gap in 58 countries, including all 30 OECD countries and 28 other emerging markets. The study measures the extent to which women have achieved full equality with men in five critical areas: 

·         economic participation 

·         economic opportunity 

·         political empowerment 

·         educational attainment 

·         health and well-being

The study uses a large number of hard data indicators from international organizations as well as qualitative information from the Forum's own Executive Opinion Survey to create the rankings.

The survey also provides information on issues such as childcare availability and cost, the impact of maternity laws on the hiring of women, the prevalence of private sector employment of women and wage inequality..." 

 

      Country Rankings (Top 10)
     
      Rank
      1
      2
      3
      4
      5
      6
      7
      8
      9
      10
     Country 
      Sweden
      Norway
      Iceland
      Denmark
      Finland
      N. Zealand
      Canada
      U.K.
      Germany
      Australia
     Score*
      5.53
      5.39
      5.32
      5.27
      5.19
      4.89
      4.87
      4.75
      4.61
      4.61
     
      Countries with the smallest gender gap rank the highest (scale 1-7).
     

 

 



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