Wednesday, November 12, 2008

[IWS] WEF: THE GLOBAL GENDER GAP REPORT [12 November 2008]

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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016
-------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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World Economic Forum (WEF)

THE GLOBAL GENDER GAP REPORT [12 November 2008]
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/report2008.pdf
[full-text, 181 pages]

Press Release 12 November 2008
NORWAY TOPS THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM'S GENDER GAP INDEX
http://email.weforum.org/I?a=A9X7Cq3L7oAu8R05sKiJoRjirA

Country Highlights and Profiles
http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Gender%20Gap/Countries2008/index.htm


See the following table--
Table 3a: The Global Gender Gap Index 2008 Rankings: Comparisons with 2007 and 2006
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/rankings2008.pdf
[full-text, 2 pages]
or
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/rankings2008.xls
[spreadsheet]

[excerpt]
The Global Gender Gap Index scores can be interpreted as the percentage of the gap between women and men that has been closed. The three highest ranking countries have closed a little over 80% of their gender gaps, while the lowest ranking country has closed only a little over 45% of its gender gap. Out of the 128 countries covered in both 2007 and 2008, more than two-thirds have posted gains in overall index scores, indicating that the world in general has made progress towards equality between men and women. Additionally, taking averages across the subindexes for these 128 countries reveals that, globally, progress has been made on narrowing the gaps in educational attainment, political empowerment and economic participation, while the gap in health has widened.


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