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Countries by Gender Inequality Index (Data from 2019, published in 2020). Red denotes more gender inequality, and green more equality. [1]The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is an index for the measurement of gender disparity that was introduced in the 2010 Human Development Report 20th anniversary edition by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
During the 19th century, Norway was a very poor country, which led to a rural exodus and high levels of emigration. In 1882, Norway had 30,000 departures from a population of 1.9 million inhabitants. However, the number of emigrants is higher than 27% of females in 1900; by that year, there were 165 men to every 100 women.
The IHDI, estimated for the world and specific countries, captures the losses in human development due to inequality in health, education and income. Losses in all three dimensions vary across countries, ranging from just a few percent (e.g. Czech Republic and Slovenia) up to over 40% (e.g. Angola and Comoros). Overall loss takes into account ...
In 2022, the Gender Equality Index score for the EU is 68.6 points out of 100, a 0.6‑point increase since the 2021 Index and only 5.5 points higher than in 2010. This marks an advance but at a slow pace. Progress in gender equality is largely driven by the domain of power, which conversely has the greatest gender inequalities in the EU.
Cover of the 2008 report. The Global Gender Gap Report is an index designed to measure gender equality.It was first published in 2006 by the World Economic Forum. [1]It "assesses countries on how well they are dividing their resources and opportunities among their male and female populations, regardless of the overall levels of these resources and opportunities," the Report says. [2] "
In a June 2020 report, the European Commission classified the legal procedures for gender recognition of 28 European countries into 5 categories based on the barriers to access and compliance with international human rights law. Non-EU members Norway and Iceland were described as having similar procedures as the top category that included EU ...
The study examined more than 7,800 MRI scans from men and women across 29 countries (AFP via Getty Images) Stress caused by gender inequality is harming women’s brains, a first-of-its-kind study ...
Below is a list of countries by their Gender Development Index, based on data collected in 2018, and published in 2019. [3] Countries are grouped into five groups based on the absolute deviation from gender parity in HDI values, from 1 (closest to gender parity) to 5 (furthest from gender parity).