How Colombia fared rises in the WEF gender gap report

Colombia is among the countries with a considerable reduction of gender gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean, as it rose 4.1 percentage points, according to the 2023 report on gender equality of the World Economic Forum (WEF, for its acronym in English).

For its part, the Latino region closed its gap by 74.3%, which means that it increased 1.7 percentage points in gender equality With respect to the figures published in 2022, this places it in third place after Europe and North America.

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The World Economic Forum’s gender equality ‘ranking’ shows slight progress in the gender gap, which overall closed at just 0.3% compared to 2022.

In this seventeenth edition, four areas were evaluated: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.

For this year you see a progress in terms of education, health, survival and political empowerment, but there are still extensive difficulties in economic participation.

Since the first edition was published in 2006, progress has only been made by 4.1 percentage points globally.

About, Saadia Zahidi, CEO of the World Economic Forum said that: “AAlthough there have been encouraging signs of recovery to pre-pandemic levels, women continue to bear the brunt of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and labor market disruptionshe”.

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Between the top ranked countries meet, Iceland in first place, with greater gender equality, having closed 91.2% of its gap, according to the WEF.

follows him, Norway, which managed to close 87.9%; then Finland, with 86.3%; New Zealand, with 85.6%; and Sweden, with 81.5%, in fifth place.

in general termss Europe is the continent that has obtained the best results. Most have achieved gender parity of at least 75%.

While, North America is down about 7.7 percentage points.

About Latin America and the Caribbeanthe report revealed that overall the gaps between men and women have been closed by 74.3%. The countries of the region with the highest parity are: Nicaragua, with 81%; Costa Rica, with 79.3%; and Jamaica, with 77.9%.

In the case of Colombia registered an increase of 4.1 percentage points, which which means that the gaps are reduced by 75.1%.

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Chilialso increased the same points as Colombia, reducing the gap by 77.7%.

Specifically in political training Colombia, Chile and Brazil are the best countries in the region and the lowest scores are from Belize, Paraguay and Guatemala.

Finally The regions of the world where there is still a strong inequality between men and women are the Middle East and North Africa, where it has decreased 0.9% in parity with respect to 2022. The regional average stands at 62.6%.

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