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Study on Empowerment of Women

Bangladesh ranks 39th among 58 nations

BSS, Geneva
Bangladesh ranks several rungs higher at 39. much ahead of South Asian countries like India (53) and Pakistan (56), and tops the list of Muslim countries, surpassing Malaysia at 40 in a 58-nation study titled "Women's Empowerment: Measuring the Global Gender Gap".
Conducted by the Switzerlandbased World Economic Forum, the study measured the gender gap on the basis of five critical parameters set by the United Nations Development FundforWomen.
It was the first overarching attempt to quantify the gender gap by assessing the economic and political participation of women as well as their levels of education and health.
The study, released on May 16. commends Bangladesh's position of 18 in economic participation in terms of remuneration and 37 both
in educational attainment and health and also well-being although it slips a couple of positions in economic opportunity at 53 and in political empowerment at 42.
Quoting researchers, the BBC said Bangladesh's achievements have been possible largely due to enhanced decision-making capacity by women and participation in the democratic institutions at grassroots level like the Union Parishad.
Nordic countries have been the most successful nations in the world in reducing inequality between men and women, die World Economic Forumfoundin itsstudy.
The world's top five nations are Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Finland, according to the landmark study. Surprisingly USA ranks down the line at 17 compared with themost developed nations.
"Large populous nations such as India, Pakistan, TTtrkey and Egypt hold some of the lowest positions in
the ranking. Their ranking reflect large disparities between men and women on all five areas of the index,” thestudypointedout.
For participation in politics,. Indian daily The Hindustan Times" said, India ranks virtually at the bottom and only five countries -Korea, Jordan, Pakistan, TUrkey and Egypt — rank lower than India's 53rd position.
Japan ranks 38th in overall position because of serious inequalities in political and economic sphere between men and women. China, at number 33. beat Japan as the highest-ranked Asian country.
The United States, for example, fared poorly compared to European counterparts despite high education levels for women. Western countries "notorious for their patriarchal cultures" also performed poorly, tile study report said, citing Italy at num ber 45 and Greece at number 50 - by far the worst performers in Europe.