Caption
Gender Empowerment
Summary
This “Worldmapper” map shows the level of opportunities available to women by country. The map uses the Gender Empowerment Measure to determine the level of opportunities available to women. The measure takes into account the female share of government representation, the proportions of legislators, senior officials, managers, and professional and technical employees who are women, and the ratio of female to male earnings. The measure is scaled from 0 to 1000, where 1000 represents equality between men and women. Territory size reflects the relative degree of gender equality in each country (population multiplied by the gender empowerment measure). Western Europe offers women the most opportunities, while Yemen and Saudi Arabia in the Middle East offer women the least opportunities.
The map is accompanied by two tables that show ranked lists of the ten countries with the highest and lowest gender empowerment measure scores. There is also a bar graph that shows the variation in gender empowerment measure scores by region.
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© Copyright 2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan)
Used on QED by permission.
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