Gender empowerment measure - RRojas Databank

1 HDI rankGender empowerment measure (GEM)MDGS eats in parliament held by women a(% of total )Female legislators, senior offi cials and managers b(% of total )Female professional and technical workers b(% of total )Ratio of estimated female to male earned income cRankValue 330 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2007/2008 Human development indicatorsHIGH HUMAN d46 05 United United New Hong Kong, China (SAR).. Korea ( Republic of) Brunei Czech United Arab d52 Costa d62 .. and achieving equality for all women and menGender empowerment measureHDI rankGender empowerment measure (GEM)MDGS eats in parliament held by women a(% of total )Female legislators, senior offi cials and managers b(% of total )Female professional and technical workers b(% of total )Ratio of estimated female to male earned income cRankValue HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2007/2008 331 Human development indicatorsTABLE2954 Saint Kitts and Libyan Arab Antigua and Trinidad and Saudi and Herzegovina.

2 Russian Macedonia (TFYR) HUMAN DEVELOPMENT71 Saint Venezuela ( Bolivarian Republic of) d61 d50 Dominican Saint Vincent and the Iran (Islamic Republic of) Sri Cape El Viet Occupied Palestinian rankGender empowerment measure (GEM)MDGS eats in parliament held by women a(% of total )Female legislators, senior offi cials and managers b(% of total )Female professional and technical workers b(% of total )Ratio of estimated female to male earned income cRankValue 332 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2007/2008 Human development indicatorsTABLE29 Gender empowerment measure107 Syrian Arab M oldova5 96 3112 Egypt910. 2 6 00.

3 2 3113 U zbek ist 0114 M ongolia7 05 0115 d52 B 0 64 South Sao Tome and Equatorial Solomon Lao People s Democratic Papua New HUMAN DEVELOPMENT156 Tanzania ( United Republic of) rankGender empowerment measure (GEM)MDGS eats in parliament held by women a(% of total )Female legislators, senior offi cials and managers b(% of total )Female professional and technical workers b(% of total )Ratio of estimated female to male earned income cRankValue HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2007/2008 333 Human development indicatorsNOTESa. Data are as of 31 May 2007, unless otherwise specifi ed. Where there are lower and upper houses, data refer to the weighted average of women s shares of seats in both Data refer to the most recent year available between 1994 and 2005.

4 Estimates for countriesthat have implemented the International Standard Classifi cation of Occupations ( ISCO-88) are not strictly comparable with those for countries using the previous classifi cation (ISCO-1968).c. Calculated on the basis of data in columns 9 and 10 in Table 27. Estimates are based on datafor the most recent year available between 1996 and 2005. Following the methodologyimplemented in the calculation of the GDI, the income component of the GEM has been scaled downward for countries whose income exceeds the maximum goalpost GDP per capita value of40,000 ( PPP US $). For more details, see Technical note Data follow the ISCO-1968 classifi Brunei Darussalam does not currently have a No woman candidate was elected in the 2006 elections. One woman was appointed to the 16-member cabinet sworn in July 2006.

5 A new cabinet sworn in March 2007 included two women. As cabinet ministers also sit in parliament, there are two women out of a total of 65 No woman candidate was elected in the 2006 elections. However one woman was appointedSpeaker of the House and therefore became a member of the Parliament has been dissolved or suspended for an indefi nite The fi gures on the distribution of seats do not include the 36 special rotating delegates appointed on an ad hoc basis. All percentages given are therefore calculated on the basis of the 54 permanent The parliament elected in 1990 has never been convened nor authorized to sit, and many of its members were detained or forced into In 2004, the number of seats in parliament was raised from 300 to 345, with the additional 45 seats reserved for women.

6 These reserved seats were fi lled in September and October 2005, being allocated to political parties in proportion to their share of the national vote received in the 2001 A transitional assembly was established in January 2007. Elections for the constituent assembly will be held in The purpose of the elections held on 30 August 2001 was to elect the members of the constituent assembly of Timor-Leste. This body became the national parliament on 20 May 2002, the date on which the country became independent, without any new elections. SOURCESC olumn 1: determined on the basis of GEM values in column 2: calculated on the basis of data in columns 3 6; see Technical note 1 for 3: calculated on the basis of data on parliamentary seats from IPU 4 and 5: calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO 6: calculated on the basis of data in columns 9 and 10 of Table 28.

7 1 Norway 2 Sweden 3 Finland 4 Denmark 5 Iceland 6 Netherlands 7 Belgium 8 Australia 9 Germany 10 Canada 11 New Zealand 12 Spain 13 Austria 14 United Kingdom 15 United States 16 Singapore 17 A rge ntina 18 France 19 Ireland 20 Bahamas 21 Italy 22 Portugal 23 Trinidad and Tobago 24 Costa Rica 25 Lithuania 26 Cuba 27 Switzerland 28 Israel 29 United Arab Emirates 30 Barbados 31 Estonia 32 Peru 33 Slovakia 34 Czech Republic 35 Macedonia (TFYR) 36 Namibia 37 Greece 38 Latvia 39 Poland 40 Croatia 41 Slovenia 42 Bulgaria 43 Ecuador 44 Tanzania (United Republic of) 45 Philippines 46 Mexico 47 Honduras 48 Cyprus 49 Panama 50 Hungary 51 Mauritius 52 Viet Nam 53 Dominican Republic 54 Japan 55 Moldova 56 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 57 China 58 El Salvador 59 Uruguay 60 Chile 61 Botswana 62 Belize 63 Malta 64 Korea (Republic of) 65 Malaysia 66 Saint Lucia 67 Bolivia 68 Romania 69 Colombia 70 Brazil 71 Russian Federation 72 Ethiopia 73 Thailand 74 K a z a k h s t a n 75 Ukraine 76 Maldives 77 Mongolia 78 Paraguay 79 Georgia 80 Oman 81 Bangladesh 82 Pakistan 83 Cambodia 84 Qatar 85 Sri Lanka 86 Nepal 87 Iran (Islamic Republic of)

8 88 Morocco 89 Kyrgyzstan 90 Turkey 91 Egypt 92 Saudi Arabia 93 YemenGEM ranks for 93 countriesTABLE29160 C te d Congo ( Democratic Republic of the).. Central African Burkina Sierra