The 2012 Gender Equity Index: Mongolia at the 8th place

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the Social Watch network, which is promoted and developed by several hundred groups and organizations in more than 60 countries, has released The 2012 Gender Equity Index.

In the Index there were involved 154 countries of the world with its statistical data of Education, Economic and an Activity Women Empowerment scoring the GEI 2012 FINAL list, where Mongolia stood at the 8th place. 

The GEI measures the gap between women and men, not their well-being. Thus, a country in which young men and women have equal access to the university receives a value of 100 on this particular indicator. In the same fashion, a country in which boys and girls are equally barred from completing primary education would also be awarded a value of 100. This does not mean that the quality of education in both cases is the same. It just establishes that, in both cases girls are not less educated than boys.

Women’s participation in the labor force is significantly less compared to men. They have substantially lower salaries for the same type of work and a higher percentage of women are employed in vulnerable or irregular jobs. But more importantly, in no country do women have the same opportunities as men to participate in economic and social decision-making processes. Women still take the back seat even if they have achieved significant strides in education and economic participation.

Below, there are TOP 20 countries on Gender Equities, where the neighbor two countries of Mongolia, the Russian Federation stood at the 31st and the People’s Republic of China at the 81st, followed by South Korea (100), Japan (107), India (145) and Afghanistan (154) accordingly.