Global gender gap to close in 135.6 years

Turkey is ranked 133rd in the Global Gender Gap Report 2021prepared by the World Economic Forum. Before the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, the global gender gap was expected to close in 99.5 years but after the outbreak of the pandemic, the global gap is projected to close in 135.6 years.

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  • Thursday, 1 Apr 2021, 16:35

Turkey is ranked 133rd in the Global Gender Gap Report 2021prepared by the World Economic Forum. Before the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, the global gender gap was expected to close in 99.5 years but after the outbreak of the pandemic, the global gap is projected to close in 135.6 years.

News Center- The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published its Global Gender Gap Report 2021. According to the report the global gap is projected to close in 135.6 years while it was expected to close in 99.5 years before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Iceland is the most gender-equal country in the world. After Iceland, Finland, Norway, New Zealand, and Sweden are the most gender-equal countries. Turkey is ranked 133rd out of 156 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index.

The gender gap in the economy to close in 267.6 years

The report says, “The gender gap in Economic Participation and Opportunity remains the second-largest of the four key gaps tracked by the index. According to this year’s index results, 58% of this gap has been closed so far. The gap has seen marginal improvement since the 2020 edition of the report and as a result, we estimate that it will take another 267.6 years to close.”

As Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention keeps drawing international criticism, Turkey is ranked 133rd out of 156 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index. Turkey is ranked 140th in the Economic Participation and Opportunity gap. It is ranked 95th in the gender wage gap; 101st in the Educational attainment list.

Two of the findings in the report are as follows

·         The gender gap in Political Empowerment remains the largest of the four gaps tracked, with only 22% closed to date, having further widened since the 2020 edition of the report by 2.4 percentage points. Across the 156 countries covered by the index, women represent only 26.1% of some 35,500 parliament seats and just 22.6% of over 3,400 ministers worldwide. In 81 countries, there has never been a woman head of state, as of 15th January 2021. At the current rate of progress, the World Economic Forum estimates that it will take 145.5 years to attain gender parity in politics.

·         On Educational Attainment, gender gaps can be fully closed in just 14.2 years. Global performance is unchanged at 96.1%, marking a progress of 4.9% since 2006, or 0.33 percentage points per year.