The World Economic Forum has published the Global Gender Gap, 2007. The report covers a total of 128 countries, representing over 90% of the world’s population. Individual country profiles can be downloaded. For the highlights of The Gender Gap Report, click here.
It demonstrates the world's progress on economic, political and education gaps and that it has lost ground on health gaps. Four Nordic countries, Sweden(1), Norway (2), Finland (3) and Iceland (4) once again the top of the latest Gender Gap Index .
Global Gender Gap Index scores can be interpreted as the percentage of the gap between women and men that has been closed. Taking averages across the subindexes for 115 countries covered in both 2006 and 2007 reveals that, globally, progress has been made on narrowing the educational attainment gap from 91.55% to 91.60%, the political empowerment gap from 14.07% to 14.15% and the economic participation gap from 55.78% to 57.30%. On health, however, the gap increases, dropping from 96.25% to 95.81%.
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