The World Economic Forum started its efforts to capture the dimension and the impacts of the gender based disparities in 2006 and they released the latest report on Gender Gap in October 2012. The report aims to create awareness about the challenges which gender gaps create and on the possibilities by reducing these gender gaps.
The basic concepts that constitute the Gender Gap Index are 1) Measuring gaps 3) Gaps in Outcome variables 3) Ranking of the countries based on the gender equality. The Global Gender Gap Index has been divided into four sub indexes to examine the Gender Gap more effectively they are: 1) Economic Participation and related opportunities 2) Educational Attainment 3) Health and Survival 4) Political Empowerment.
The Scandinavian countries held the top positions in this index as the same as in 2011. Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden are the first four countries in the Gender Gap Index which successfully closed 80% of gender gaps. These high-income economies have distributed the resources and opportunities equally between women and that became a reason for their gender equality. They achieved the literacy level of 99-100% many decades back, the level of higher education has increased and that makes women as the majority of the technical work force even the salary gap between both genders is the lowest in the world.
The Scandinavian countries were the first countries to give right to vote for women Finland in 1906 Norway 1913, Denmark, 1915, Iceland 1915 and Sweden 1919. In 1970s Denmark, Sweden and Norway introduced voluntary gender quotas due to this policy these countries have the largest number of women politicians. Sweden ranks first with the largest number of women parliamentarians in the world which is 44.7%.
From Asia, Philippines rank in the first place in health, education, economic participation and political empowerment. They even closed the gender-gap in education and health in 2012. Among the Middle East countries, Israel ranked at the 50th place with a higher than average performance in economic participation, political empowerment, and opportunity.
The UAE is the only country from the Middle East which has closed the education gap. The decrease in earned income and women in parliament affected the rankings of the UAE which was in the position of 107. Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar were ranked at 109, 111 and 115. The overall ranking of The United States of America was at 22nd with 8th rank in economic participation and opportunity, 1st in educational attainment, 33rd place in health and survival, 55th place in political empowerment
The basic concepts that constitute the Gender Gap Index are 1) Measuring gaps 3) Gaps in Outcome variables 3) Ranking of the countries based on the gender equality. The Global Gender Gap Index has been divided into four sub indexes to examine the Gender Gap more effectively they are: 1) Economic Participation and related opportunities 2) Educational Attainment 3) Health and Survival 4) Political Empowerment.
The Scandinavian countries held the top positions in this index as the same as in 2011. Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden are the first four countries in the Gender Gap Index which successfully closed 80% of gender gaps. These high-income economies have distributed the resources and opportunities equally between women and that became a reason for their gender equality. They achieved the literacy level of 99-100% many decades back, the level of higher education has increased and that makes women as the majority of the technical work force even the salary gap between both genders is the lowest in the world.
The Scandinavian countries were the first countries to give right to vote for women Finland in 1906 Norway 1913, Denmark, 1915, Iceland 1915 and Sweden 1919. In 1970s Denmark, Sweden and Norway introduced voluntary gender quotas due to this policy these countries have the largest number of women politicians. Sweden ranks first with the largest number of women parliamentarians in the world which is 44.7%.
From Asia, Philippines rank in the first place in health, education, economic participation and political empowerment. They even closed the gender-gap in education and health in 2012. Among the Middle East countries, Israel ranked at the 50th place with a higher than average performance in economic participation, political empowerment, and opportunity.
The UAE is the only country from the Middle East which has closed the education gap. The decrease in earned income and women in parliament affected the rankings of the UAE which was in the position of 107. Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar were ranked at 109, 111 and 115. The overall ranking of The United States of America was at 22nd with 8th rank in economic participation and opportunity, 1st in educational attainment, 33rd place in health and survival, 55th place in political empowerment
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