Gender empowerment by country. Definition, graph and map.

DEFINITION
Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). The GEM measures the participation of women and men in political decision-making. This index also has four indicators: female members of the Legislature, female participation in selected positions in public and private sector, female participation in academic and technical work, and estimated income. Both indexes are based on data collected by the UN and are processed to enable comparison.

People Statistics > Gender empowerment (most recent) by country

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Rank

Countries

Amount

# 1

Norway:

0.837

# 2

Iceland:

0.833

# 3

Sweden:

0.824

# 4

Denmark:

0.821

# 5

Finland:

0.803

# 6

Netherlands:

0.781

# 7

Canada:

0.777

= 8

New Zealand:

0.765

= 8

Germany:

0.765

# 10

Australia:

0.759

# 11

United States:

0.757

# 12

Austria:

0.745

# 13

Switzerland:

0.718

# 14

Belgium:

0.706

# 15

Spain:

0.702

# 16

United Kingdom:

0.684

# 17

Ireland:

0.675

# 18

Barbados:

0.658

# 19

Bahamas, The:

0.652

# 20

Portugal:

0.638

# 21

Trinidad and Tobago:

0.611

# 22

Israel:

0.596

# 23

Singapore:

0.592

# 24

Poland:

0.59

# 25

Slovenia:

0.585

# 26

Costa Rica:

0.579

# 27

Estonia:

0.568

# 28

Czech Republic:

0.56

# 29

Slovakia:

0.545

= 30

Latvia:

0.539

= 30

Italy:

0.539

= 32

Croatia:

0.527

= 32

Japan:

0.527

# 34

Cyprus:

0.525

# 35

Philippines:

0.523

# 36

Uruguay:

0.519

# 37

Suriname:

0.518

# 38

Mexico:

0.517

# 39

Peru:

0.516

# 40

Dominican Republic:

0.514

# 41

Greece:

0.512

# 42

Colombia:

0.509

# 43

Malaysia:

0.505

# 44

Hungary:

0.5

# 45

Belize:

0.499

# 46

Ecuador:

0.484

# 47

Lithuania:

0.483

# 48

Panama:

0.475

# 49

Chile:

0.474

# 50

Thailand:

0.458

# 51

El Salvador:

0.454

= 52

Bolivia:

0.45

= 52

Russia:

0.45

= 52

Romania:

0.45

# 55

Venezuela:

0.442

# 56

Ukraine:

0.428

# 57

Mauritius:

0.41

# 58

Paraguay:

0.408

# 59

Honduras:

0.405

# 60

Korea, South:

0.378

# 61

Maldives:

0.361

# 62

Turkey:

0.312

# 63

Sri Lanka:

0.274

# 64

Egypt:

0.26

# 65

Bangladesh:

0.223

Weighted average:

0.6

DEFINITION: Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). The GEM measures the participation of women and men in political decision-making. This index also has four indicators: female members of the Legislature, female participation in selected positions in public and private sector, female participation in academic and technical work, and estimated income. Both indexes are based on data collected by the UN and are processed to enable comparison.

SOURCE: Human Development Reports, United Nations 2002

People Statistics > Gender empowerment (most recent) by country

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