Smart principles, smart economics 1 time passes slowly when change is overdue. United states ranks worse this year on gender gap the. Global gender gap the home of great south african news. This report from the world economic forum measures gender disparities in 153 countries and tracks their. Table 3 displays the 2015 index and subindex rankings, organized from highest to lowest by rank, on the overall index. The world economic forum global gender gap report 2011. Hdi trends for central african republic, uganda and gambia, 19902018 central african republics 2018 hdi of 0.
Spread of minimum and maximum values by indicator, 2015. The regions score has improved compared to 2014 on all subindexes except educational attainment. Through the global gender gap report, the world economic forum quantifies the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress over time, with a specific focus on the relative gaps between women and men across four key areas. On average, in 2015, over 96% of the gap in health outcomes, 95% of the gap in educational attainment, 59% of the gap in economic participation and 23% of the gap in political empowerment has been closed.
The global gender gap index featured in the 2015 report ranks over 140 economies according to how well they are. Yemen, the lowest ranking country has closed over 48% of the gender gap. The gender gap index 2015 benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, educational and health criteria, and provides country. Tyson, university of california, berkeley saadia zahidi, world economic forum the global gender gap index, coauthored by fiona greig, ricardo hausmann, laura d. Gender gap index puts pakistan in secondlast place. It will take 118 years to close the global gender wage gap. The global gender gap report was first published in 2006 by the world economic forum. Nearly six out of ten wage and salaried workers worldwide are in either parttime or temporary forms of wage and salaried employment. The global gender gap report 2015 3 the global gender gap index was first introduced by the world economic forum in 2006 as a framework for capturing the magnitude of genderbased disparities and tracking their progress. The global gender gap index 2010 ricardo hausmann, harvard university laura d.
Gender equality in this article is broadly understood as a process of developing higher gender awareness lahelma, 2014 educ res 562. No country in the world has fully closed the gender gap, but four out of the five nordic countries and ireland have closed more than 80% of it. The global gender gap will take 100 years to close at the current rate of change, according to new world economic forum research. The global gender gap report 2017 due to progress towards gender parity in the countrys share of legislators, senior officials and managers, as well as to. These women hunters are redefining what it means to be. Ten years of measuring the global gender gap has helped us understand how lack of progress is damaging to global economic growth, and given us insights into how practical measures can support growth and improve the quality of life for women worldwide. Since 2006 the global gender gap index has been measuring the extent of. Understanding the 20 global gender gap report women. The global gender gap index is an index designed to measure gender equality the index is designed to measure genderbased gaps in access to resources and opportunities in countries rather than the actual levels of the available resources and. Despite the effort, south korea still has an enormous gender gap, with the world economic forums global gender gap report in 2015 placing korea 115th out of 146 nations in gender equality. Global gender gap grows for first time in 11 years cbs news. The world economic forum global gender gap report 2015 showed that sri lanka has been slipping from its privileged position in the top 20 since 2010. World economic forum geneva, switzerland 2009 the global gender gap report 2009 ricardo hausmann,harvard university laura d. The global gender gap index featured in the 2015 report ranks over 140 economies according to how well they are leveraging their female talent pool, based on economic, educational, healthbased and political indicators.
The 2015 human development report is the latest in the series of global human development. The world economic forum in its global gender gap report 2015 estimates it will take 118 more years to achieve global gender parity in the workplace. The global gender gap report 2015 weforum world economic. Human development report 2015 human development reports. On thursday, the world economic forum released its annual gender gap report, which examines the level of gender parity between women and men around the world. Global gender gap report 2016, released on tuesday, pakistan ranks 143 out of 144 countries in the gender inequality index, way behind. The global gender gap report 2016 how does sa rank. With a decade of data, this edition of the global gender gap report first published in 2006 shows that while the world has made progress overall, stubborn inequalities remain.
This year is the 10th edition of the index, allowing for timeseries analysis on the. Closing the gender gap 5 new momentum for implementation accounts for only about half of global employment and covers as few as 20 percent of workers in regions such as subsaharan africa and south asia. Sri lankas gender gap increased over the last year and gender equality ranking declined from a 79 in 2014 to an 84 this year out of 145 countries, a report released wednesday by the world economic forum showed. The global gender gap index humanitarian data exchange. Organization, stands at 19%16, but also suggest that economic power is still typically. The economic gender gap wont be closed for another 217 years. The global gender gap report 2018 18 december 2018 origin. The gender gap report ignores the division of unpaid labor, including childcare, leaving open the real possibility that even if the economic gap is seemingly closing women will be handicapped by the double day wherein they both engage in paid employment and remain overwhelmingly responsible for unpaid work for example see lombardo and meier. The 2020 report published in 2019 covers 153 countries. Figure 22 displays the relative positions of regions according to their economic gender gap between 2006 and 2015. Global gender gap report 2015 world economic forum. World economic forum presents an interactive map highlighting the most competitive countries around the world. Global gender gap report 2015 reports world economic forum. Rapporto global gender gap del world economic forum.
In these reports, wef quantifies the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress over time, with a specific focus on the relative gaps between women and men across four key areas. India ranks 87th on the wefs global gender gap report 2016. Tyson and saadia zahidi, was first introduced in the world economic forums global gender gap report 2006. Tyson, university of california, berkeley saadia zahidi,world economic forum rrex 11810 11. With a decade of data, this edition of the global gender gap report first published in 2006 shows that while the world has made progress overall.
The global gender gap index 2015 world economic forum. It will take 118 years to close the global gender wage gap a massive study of 3. Global gender gap will take 100 years to close, says wef. Global gender gap report browser since 2006, the world economic forum wef has published an annual global gender gap report. Pakistan secondworst on global gender gap index daily times. Switzerland ranks in top ten regarding gender equality. The global gender gap index featured in the 2015 report ranks over 140 economies according to how well they are leveraging their female.
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