Kenya Ranked Below Uganda and Tanzania in New International Rating
Kenya hasย been ranked below Uganda and Tanzaniaย in the East African region inย the Global Gender Gap Rankings report by the World Economic Forum.
According to the report, Kenya is at position 95 globally and 16 in Africa. Uganda and Tanzania are positions 10 and 13 in Africa and positions 1 and 2 in East Africa respectively.
Uganda has a 0.717 percentage in gender balance in hiring across industries placing it at position 10 in Africa and 66 globally.ย Economic participation and opportunitiesย was at 0.655 percent, educational attainment was at 0.950 percent, health and survival was at 0.957 percent and political empowerment was at o.216 percent.
Tanzania’s economic participation and opportunities were at 0.583 percent, educational attainment at 0.950 percent, health survival at 0.958 percent and political empowerment at 0.218 percent.
The Global Gender Gap index benchmarksย gender equality based on the relative gaps between women and men inย 156 countries, providing a tool for cross-country comparison and to prioritize the most effective policies needed to close gender gaps.
It gaugesย the evolution of gender-based gaps among four key dimensions including Economic Participation, Educational Attainment, Health, and Political Empowerment and tracks progress towards closing these gaps.
“The gender gap in Political Empowerment remains the largest of the four gaps tracked, with only 22 percent closed to date. Across the 156 countries covered by the index, women represent only 26.1 percentย of some 35,500 parliament seats and just 22.6 percentย of over 3,400 ministers worldwide.”
“In 81 countries, there has never been a woman head of state, as of 15th January 2021. At the current rate of progress, the World Economic Forum estimates that it will take 145.5 years to attain gender parity in politics,” reads the report.
Rwanda was ranked at position 2 in Africa and 7 globally withย gender parityย having been fully achieved in the share of ministerial positions and parliamentary positions held by women.
It has narrowed its Economic Participation and Opportunity gender gap by almost 5 percentage points, reaching 48th globally on this dimension, with a score of 72.6 percent. The share of women in senior and managerial roles has doubledย to 28.6 percent.
Kenya has been ranked 84ย on women’s participation in economic activities andย 126 on education opportunities for women. It has also narrowed the gap inย women’s representation in politics ranking at position 79 withย constitutional two-thirds gender rule having men occupyย 66ย percent of public offices. There is also an improvementย in the health and survival index which places the country at position 60.
The report further revealed that gender gaps in income persist and are underpinned by more women in low-paid jobs and more men in high-paying jobs.
The Covid-19ย crisis has also accelerated automation and digitalization, speeding up labor market disruption. Data points to significant challenges for gender parity in the future of jobs due to increasing occupational gender segregation.
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Kenya Ranked Below Uganda and Tanzania in New International Rating
