Monday, December 17, 2007

The Global Gender Gap Report 2007



This report is aimed at capturing the magnitude of the gap between women and
men in four critical areas: economic participation and opportunity, political empowerment, educational attainment and health and survival.

It aims to be a tool for benchmarking and tracking global gender-based inequalities on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria. The country rankings are meant to serve a dual purpose. They are designed to create greater awareness among a global audience of the challenges posed by gender gaps and the opportunities created by reducing them. It is also hoped that the rankings, together with the detailed country profiles, will serve as a catalyst for change by providing policy-makers with a snapshot of their country’s relative strengths and weaknesses of their country’s performance compared to that of other nations.

The top ranking countries are Norway, Finland, Iceland, New Zealand and Philippines.

The Global Gender Gap Report 2007 is published by the World Economic Forum.

The document can be downloaded from http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Gender%20Gap/index.htm