Global Gender Gap Index 2016

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The Global Gender Gap Index indicates that more countries can take more steps to narrow the gender gap. Of the overall index, only five countries filled more than 80% of the gap. In addition, 64 countries have filled 70% to 80% of gender disparities. Other 65 countries closed 60% to 70%, and 10 countries closed 50% to 60%. In 2016, the gender disparity in any country did not narrow to less than 50%. However, in each of the region's success stories and countries with poor performance, significant progress has been made in reducing gender disparity in each region of the world.

According to the updated regional classification of the report, considering the average disparity that needs to be filled in each region of the world, the two regions in the world - Western Europe and North America - 30%, 25% and 28% It has a gender disparity less than. The gender gap between Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia is almost 30%. Subsequently, there are East Asia and the Pacific, the gender gap is 31.7%, the disparity in sub-Saharan Africa is 32.1%, and the disparity in South Asia is 33%. In the Middle East and North Africa region, the gender gap has yet to be reduced to less than 40%. The reader needs to be aware that the population weighted group average is used for the report.

Despite the high regional average, the results of the 20 countries covered in Western Europe still have broad impact. A wide range of nationwide performances are carried out in 30 countries covered in sub-Saharan Africa as well. Here, the diversity of such results is usually promoted by various manifestations of educational outcomes subindex. In other areas, subindustries of economic participation and opportunities and political empowerment have the most diversified outcome, but the difference between the educational level and the sub index of health and survival tends to be relatively small.

Three conceptual basis of the global gender gap index: First, the index measures the gap, not the level. Next, we use the resulting gaps instead of the input gaps. Third, they are ranking the countries based on gender equality, not empowerment of women. For more information, see Indexing Web sites. Country, 7th March 2014. A note from the author's e-mail newsletter: "The US is currently the 98th largest woman in the world and is getting worse (the US is ranked 59th in 1998). There is. "

The Global Gender Gap Index indicates that more countries can take more steps to narrow the gender gap. Of the overall index, only five countries filled more than 80% of the gap. In addition, 64 countries have filled 70% to 80% of gender disparities. Other 65 countries closed 60% to 70%, and 10 countries closed 50% to 60%. In 2016, the gender disparity in any country did not narrow to less than 50%. However, in each of the region's success stories and countries with poor performance, significant progress has been made in reducing gender disparity in each region of the world.

One of the means to measure gender disparities is the global gender disparity index proposed by the World Economic Forum. Index is a framework for grasping the sex difference. It aims to be a tool for benchmarking and tracking gender-based global inequality in economic, political, educational and health standards. The structure of the index is in the appendix. In this article, I am only interested in opportunities for economic participation and index analysis. This field is derived from three concepts: Participation Gap, Wage Gap, Promotion Gap. Grasp the disparity of participation through the difference of labor participation rate. Wage disparity is gained by qualitative variables calculated by hard data indicators (estimated ratio of women and men's income) and executive opinion survey of the World Economic Forum (similar work).