Armenia ranked 97th in WEF Global Gender Gap Index 2017
03.11.2017,
13:05
Armenia is ranked 97th among 144 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2017.
YEREVAN, November 3. /ARKA/. Armenia is ranked 97th among 144 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2017.
The index is designed to measure inequality between men and women in different countries on 14 criteria in four key areas: economic participation and career opportunities, education, health and survival and political rights and opportunities.
Armenia has passed only 67.7% of the road to complete equality, and this makes 68% of the median level. Over one year, Armenia has gone five notches up in the ranking.
Armenia is crippling especially in one of the four areas – gender equality in health and survival, where also male and female life expectancy is measured as well. The country is 143rd here.
Opportunities to be engaged in political activity got a low mark as well, and Armenia came 11th here.
The country is ranked 71st in the male and female equality in economy category, and it is quite successful in maintaining equality in education area – the 42nd rank.
The following post-Soviet countries left Armenia behind: Tajikistan (95th), Georgia (94th), Kyrgyzstan (85th), Russia (71st), Ukraine (61st), Kazakhstan (52nd), Moldova (30th) and Belarus (26th).
The only country Armenia has outdone is Azerbaijan, with its 98th rank.
Norway and Finland are topping the ranking.
But the report points out some regress in advancing to a complete equality and says the global gender gap would take 100 years to close, compared with 83 last year. -0---
The index is designed to measure inequality between men and women in different countries on 14 criteria in four key areas: economic participation and career opportunities, education, health and survival and political rights and opportunities.
Armenia has passed only 67.7% of the road to complete equality, and this makes 68% of the median level. Over one year, Armenia has gone five notches up in the ranking.
Armenia is crippling especially in one of the four areas – gender equality in health and survival, where also male and female life expectancy is measured as well. The country is 143rd here.
Opportunities to be engaged in political activity got a low mark as well, and Armenia came 11th here.
The country is ranked 71st in the male and female equality in economy category, and it is quite successful in maintaining equality in education area – the 42nd rank.
The following post-Soviet countries left Armenia behind: Tajikistan (95th), Georgia (94th), Kyrgyzstan (85th), Russia (71st), Ukraine (61st), Kazakhstan (52nd), Moldova (30th) and Belarus (26th).
The only country Armenia has outdone is Azerbaijan, with its 98th rank.
Norway and Finland are topping the ranking.
But the report points out some regress in advancing to a complete equality and says the global gender gap would take 100 years to close, compared with 83 last year. -0---
