Aspects to highlight of the Global Gender Gap Report 2009

The Global Gender Gap Index, introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, is a framework for capturing the magnitude and scope of gender-based disparities and tracking their progress. The Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political education- and health- based criteria.

The fourth edition of the Global Gender Gap Report provides a valuable snapshot of the current performance of 134 countries, representing over 90% of the world’s population. On average, over 96% of the gap on health outcomes, 93% of the gap on educational attainment, 60% of the gap on economic participation and 17% of the gap political empowerment has been closed. No country in the world has achieved gender equality. The three highest ranking countries –Iceland, Finland and Norway- have closed a little over 80% of their gender gaps, while the lowest ranking country –Yemen- has closed only around 46% of its gender gap.

We at AFAEMME wanted to capture some of the data provided by The Global Gender Gap Report 2009 to offer a short and clear overview of the current performance of 18 of the analyzed countries: Albania, Algeria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Finland, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.

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