No country has yet achieved one hundred percent gender equality in all four areas being measured. The greatest equality between men and women remains in the Scandinavian countries. Iceland is number one (seven years in a row), followed by Norway, Finland and Sweden. Ireland jumped from eighth place in 2014 to fifth place in 2015. Sixth place goes to Rwanda, a country which entered the index for the first time in 2014 when it was in seventh place. The last three countries in the top ten are Switzerland, Slovenia and New Zealand. Denmark and Belgium, on the other hand, fell from the top ten in 2015.
The biggest gender inequality remains in Yemen, Pakistan and Syria. The Czech Republic was ranked 81st in 2015. In 2006, it was in 53rd place and in 2014 it was in 93rd place.
Regarding economic participation and opportunities for both sexes, the Czech Republic ranks 94th (100th place in 2014). It ranked 42nd in the issue of health and life expectancy (37th in 2014) and in 83rd place in the issue of political empowerment (107th in 2014). However, we are in first place in terms of access to education for both sexes. Along with the USA, Australia, UK, France, Norway and Slovakia, we have managed to completely eliminate gender differences in the area of education.
The full report, including separate results for each country is available for download on the World Economic Forum website.
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