By Sopio
Datishvili
The gap of wages
and economic difference between men and women won't be filled up for the next
170 years - This is what the World Economic Forum 2016 report says, which is
based on the data from 144 countries. It shows how slowly the world is moving
towards the gender equality.
In the data,
published last year, WEF was saying that the gender gap would be filled up
in more then a century years. The executive council of the World Economic Forum explains that
their figures aren't final verdicts and it is reflection of global general
picture in each particular year.
This week the
organisation published Global gender Gap Report 2016, where Georgia is on
the 90th place. The country has stepped back for 8 positions since last year.
Countries of the region like Ukraine and Azerbaijan, have better results position the Georgia in the list.
As the rating is
built on four major criteria, every country has its own evaluation and index in
economic participation and opportunities, educational attainment, health and
survival and political empowerment. Georgia's index in economic participation -
61, is the highest among these four. The lowest index, the country has is in
health and survival (119) and in political empowerment (114). The index of
educational attainment is 78.
The report was
published almost simultaneously with the major protests in Iceland, where women
are protesting gender wage gap of 14%-18%. Iceland is in the top of
the list of the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report, as the country where gender balance is the best protected compared to other countries. The worst situation in this regard is in Yemen, which
is on the 144th place with its gender gap index.
According to
various reports, if in developing countries, the women had proper access to
jobs, they could gain 9 trillion USD per year. If there was no gender gap, this
money would go in their family budget.
This story is taken from the web page of the Women's Information Center and translated into English by me. To see the original story, click here.
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