| | | | The results of the study, conducted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and released Monday, showed that women in Egypt are the furthest behind men in terms of economic equality, with Turkey being rated as 57th out of 58.
The study, which took in all 30 industrialised countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and 28 emerging market countries, rated countries on five criteria: equal pay and access to jobs, representation of women in decision-making structures, equal access to education and access to reproductive healthcare.
“Their rankings reflect large disparities between men and women of all five areas of the index,” the WEF said of those countries that rated poorly in the study.
Along with Turkey and Egypt in the bottom ten of the ranking were Venezuela, Greece, Brazil, Mexico, India, South Korea, Jordan, and Pakistan
Scandinavia filled the top five positions in the ranking, with Sweden leading the way for gender equality, followed by Norway, Iceland, Denmark, and Finland.
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