The Gap

The World Economic Forum released its findings concerning the gender gap in 128 countries covering 90% of the world's population. They determined the results by looking at women's economic participation and opportunity, educational attainmenet, political empowerment, and health/survival.

Interesting to see the Philippines and Sri Lanka ranked so high (even Lesotho and Namibia are more gender equal than the USA!) and shocking that Italy and Japan are so low. As Japanese Habitat volunteers go to Kyrgyzstan to build houses, I suppose Kyrgyz NGOs will be sending groups to Tokyo to introduce them to the concept of gender equality. I wonder why "development" always seems to be based on GDP...