Gender Gap reality
Let's not fool ourselves... according to The Global Gender Gap Report 2006, no nation in the world has managed to eliminate gender gap yet…
The Global Gender Gap Report 2006 covers current and candidate European Union countries, 20 from Latin America and the Caribbean, over 20 from sub-Saharan Africa and 10 from the Arab world. The total of 115 economies cover over 90% of the world’s population. The index mainly uses publicly available hard data indicators drawn from international organizations and some qualitative information from the Forum’s own Executive Opinion Survey.
It measures the size of the gender gap in four critical areas of inequality between men and women:
- Economic participation and opportunity (outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment)
- Educational attainment (outcomes on access to basic and higher level education)
- Political empowerment (outcomes on representation in decision-making structures)
- Health and survival (outcomes on life expectancy and sex ratio)
The Nordic countries, Sweden (1), Norway (2), Finland (3) and Iceland (4), top the latest Gender Gap Index. Germany (5), the Philippines (6), New Zealand (7), Denmark (8), the United Kingdom (9) and Ireland (10) complete the top 10 countries with the smallest gender gap.
You can find the complete report on the following link http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/report2006.pdf
And the complete country ranking can be found at http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/rankings.xls
The Global Gender Gap Report 2006 covers current and candidate European Union countries, 20 from Latin America and the Caribbean, over 20 from sub-Saharan Africa and 10 from the Arab world. The total of 115 economies cover over 90% of the world’s population. The index mainly uses publicly available hard data indicators drawn from international organizations and some qualitative information from the Forum’s own Executive Opinion Survey.
It measures the size of the gender gap in four critical areas of inequality between men and women:
- Economic participation and opportunity (outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment)
- Educational attainment (outcomes on access to basic and higher level education)
- Political empowerment (outcomes on representation in decision-making structures)
- Health and survival (outcomes on life expectancy and sex ratio)
The Nordic countries, Sweden (1), Norway (2), Finland (3) and Iceland (4), top the latest Gender Gap Index. Germany (5), the Philippines (6), New Zealand (7), Denmark (8), the United Kingdom (9) and Ireland (10) complete the top 10 countries with the smallest gender gap.
You can find the complete report on the following link http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/report2006.pdf
And the complete country ranking can be found at http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/rankings.xls
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