NZ women close the gap
5:00AM Sunday March 04, 2007
By Nicola Shepheard
New Zealand is among the top 10 countries in narrowing the gender gap, says a major new report. But we're still some way off true equality of the sexes.
The Gender Gap Index 2006, a collaboration between Harvard University, London Business School and World Economics Forum, said New Zealand had the seventh-smallest gap between men and women out of 115 countries.
The index measured gaps in economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment.
Our overall score was 0.714, where 1 represented total equality.
We were particularly strong in political empowerment and education, and had relatively more women in high-skilled professions than any other country.
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