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By Loubna Flah
Morocco World News
Casablanca, July 20, 2013
Despite all efforts to set men and women on equal footing at the political and the legislative levels, Morocco still ranks very low in terms of gender equality.
According to Global Gender Gap Report published by the World Economic Forum, Morocco ranks 129 in 2012 in a ranking that included 132.
According to the Global Gender Report, Morocco has not been able to narrow significantly the gap existing between men and women in regards to economic participation, educational attainment, health and political empowerment.
Iceland ranks first in the 2012 Global Gender Gap Index report followed by a number of Nordic countries like Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
Ireland preserves it’s ranking in the fifth position from last year report while the United Kingdom which ranks 18. The United States ranks 22 followed by the Mozambique which ranks 23.
The UAE, the first Arab country on the list, ranks 107 followed by Kuwait and Bahrain come rank in the 109 and 111th position respectively.
Through the Global Gender Gap Report series, the World Economic Forum has been quantifying the magnitude of gender bias in the world.
By providing a comprehensive framework for benchmarking global gender gaps, the Report reveals those countries that are role models in sharing their resources equitably between women and men, regardless of the overall level of those resources.
The aim of the report is to focus on whether the gap between women and men in the chosen variables has declined, rather than whether women are “winning” the “battle of the sexes”.
The regional performance on the Global Gender Gap 2012 shows that the Middle East and Africa were not able to narrow the gap between genders whereas Europe, central Asia and North America have reduced considerably the existing differences between men and women.
Concerning the political empowerment of women, all the aforementioned regions failed to score high compared to other criteria such as health and educational attainment. In this category also, the Middle East and North Africa have the lowest scores.
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