Index Shows Little Progress on Gender Equality
Cambodia has made little progress on gender equality and is the lowest-ranked country in the region, according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2013 Gender Gap Index released Friday, slipping a place from last year to rank 104 out of 136 countries. The index examines the gap between men and women in four broad areas: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment. Cambodia’s overall equality score this year was 0.651 out of 1, a slight improvement on 2012 when the country scored 0.646. The higher score is mainly due to small increases in educational equality—which focuses on literacy and enrollment in all levels of education—and economic participation, which looks at wage equality and the number of women working professionally. …
Simon Henderson
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