Women’s economic opportunity 2012

[james_davis_nicoll]

Women’s economic opportunity 2012; A global index and ranking from the Economist Intelligence Unit


Overall Women’s Economic Opportunity 2012 rankings table

(Unweighted total or UT of all category scores (0-100 where 100=most favourable)

     
Nation                     UT                        
1 Sweden                  90.4      
2 Norway                  88.3      
3 Finland                 88.2
4 Belgium                 87.7
5 Australia               87.1
6 Germany                 86.3
7 Netherlands             85.0
8 New Zealand             83.7
9 Canada                  83.2
10 Iceland                83.0
11 Denmark                81.3
12 France                 79.5
13 United Kingdom         78.9
14 United States          78.4
15 Portugal               77.3
16 Lithuania              77.0
17 Austria                76.3
18 Slovenia               76.2
19 Switzerland            76.1
20 Luxembourg             75.4
21 Hungary                74.9
22 Hong Kong, China       74.7
23 Ireland                74.6
24 Spain                  74.0
25 Japan                  73.9
26 Slovak Republic        73.8
27 Bulgaria               73.5
28 Latvia                 72.1
29 Estonia                71.7
30 Israel                 71.5
31 Singapore              71.4
32 Italy                  70.9
33 Czech Republic         70.8
34 Poland                 70.2
35 Korea, Rep.            69.4
36 Greece                 68.7
37 Mauritius              67.7
38 South Africa           65.3
39 Uruguay                65.3
40 Macedonia, FYR         65.3
41 Mexico                 64.6
42 Chile                  64.2
43 Romania                62.2
44 Croatia                61.9
45 Costa Rica             61.1
46 Panama                 60.6
47 Thailand               60.1
48 Brazil                 59.5
49 Tunisia                59.5
50 Argentina              59.2
51 Montenegro             58.2
52 Bosnia and Herzegovina 58.1
53 Malaysia               57.7
54 Albania                56.5
55 Serbia                 56.4
56 Peru                   55.8
57 Ukraine                55.4
58 Colombia               55.3
59 Georgia                54.5
60 Moldova                54.5
61 Kazakhstan             54.5
62 Belarus                53.8
63 Namibia                53.6
64 Armenia                53.3
65 Turkey                 53.2
66 Russia                 52.9
67 El Salvador            52.4
68 China                  52.3
69 Paraguay               52.1
70 Venezuela              51.8
71 Ecuador                51.2
72 United Arab Emirates   50.8
73 Dominican Republic     50.5
74 Philippines            50.3
75 Mongolia               50.0
76 Kuwait                 49.9
77 Botswana               49.9
78 Bahrain                49.0
79 Lebanon                48.7
80 Egypt                  48.7
81 Fiji                   48.5
82 Oman                   48.2
83 Nicaragua              47.8
84 Sri Lanka              47.6
85 Indonesia              47.5
86 Kenya                  47.5
87 Vietnam                47.1
88 Honduras               47.0
89 Morocco                47.0
90 Azerbaijan             46.8
91 Ghana                  46.4
92 Bolivia                46.0
93 Jordan                 45.9
94 Kyrgyz Republic        45.7
95 Tanzania               45.4
96 Cambodia               44.6
97 Uzbekistan             44.0
98 India                  41.9
99 Samoa                  41.7
100 Tajikistan            41.5
101 Benin                 40.8
102 Uganda                40.4
103 Saudi Arabia          39.7
104 Algeria               39.7
105 Bangladesh            39.2
106 Vanuatu               39.1
107 Malawi                39.0
108 Senegal               38.7
109 Laos                  38.6
110 Tonga                 38.3
111 Timor Leste           36.9
112 Zambia                36.9
113 Burkina Faso          36.8
114 Cameroon              36.1
115 Syria                 35.9
116 Pakistan              35.5
117 Iran                  35.4
118 Turkmenistan          34.4
119 Nigeria               33.4
120 Madagascar            32.7
121 Côte d’Ivoire         30.8
122 Togo                  30.7
123 Ethiopia              30.3
124 Solomon Islands       29.2
125 Papua New Guinea      26.6
126 Yemen                 24.6
127 Chad                  23.3
128 Sudan                 19.2

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

I am startled by how high up Saudi Arabia scores (#103). I note that Afghanistan is unlisted.

[connactic.livejournal.com]

This seems to be a more expanded version of it:

http://graphics.eiu.com/upload/WEO_report_June_2010.pdf

The categories they measure are:

1) Labour policy and practice
2) Access to finance
3) Education and training
4) Women’s legal and social status
5) General business environment

Saudi Arabia is completely awful in #1 and #4, but since they are a wealthy country they end up scoring higher than other countries on the other categories

Saudi Arabia does score dead last on the 'wealthy countries' subsection of that report.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

We're number fourteen! We're number fourteen!

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

Did the report explain why those countries not listed (eg Mali, Zimbabwe) aren't listed?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

If it does I overlooked the explanation.

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

Past experience with the EIU is that they skip countries that do not publish data. (And those that publish "data" that appears to be made-up.)

[nwhyte]

We're number four! Slightly startling that only the Scandinavians are ahead of us.

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting that Russia is 30 points lower than traditionally quite macho Greece: so much for socialist promises of gender equality...

(OTOH, ex-Soviet Lithuania is a fairly high 16)

Bruce

[krfsm.livejournal.com]

And just yesterday, a big Swedish newspaper ran the first page headline "8 out of 10 feel Sweden is not equal" (which indeed it isn't, but we're getting there).

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

I forget where, but a while back I saw a review of the Stieg Larsson novels that ended along the lines of "See, Sweden is a misogynistic hellhole despite what all the libbruls told you"! USA USA USA!". Which I doubt was the intended message.