THURSDAY 27th OCTOBER, 2022
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Guyana leaps from 53rd to 35th for gender equality globally - WEF 2022 Report notes progress in education, economic opportunities, health, political empowerment
IN the 2022 World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022, Guyana has made major progress over the last year to achieve gender equality compared to other countries in the world. Now ranking 35th globally, Guyana is now in second place for CARICOM countries, falling behind Barbados, and has also performed better than developed countries,
Australia, Italy, and Poland. For Latin America and the Caribbean, the report noted Guyana as one of three countries that has “improved their gender parity scores the most” from 2021 to now. More specifically, the global gender gap index is assessed through examining economic partnership and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment
among the genders. Guyana ranked 105th for economic participation and opportunity in 2021 and 53rd in 2022, climbing 52 places. For educational attainment, the country moved 39 places from 91st in 2021 to 57th in 2022. As it relates to health and survival, 2021 saw the country scoring 1st with other countries and maintaining that position in 2022 with 27 other
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countries placing 1st. Last, for political empowerment, the country moved up two places from 44th in 2021 to 42nd in 2022. A total of 146 countries were assessed for the report from the Geneva, Switzerland-based organisation which has been tracking progress on closing gender gaps globally since 2006. The data represents statistics extracted from interna-
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira tional organisations globally among other sources. Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Minister, Gail Teixeira, in an interview on Wednesday following the circulation of the report, said that the report has helped countries and regions to visualise where gender gaps are located, even as the United Nations (UN) recognises that
bridging the gender gap in some countries would take more than 100 years. “We’ve done well!” Minister Teixeira said, underscoring the amazing achievements of the President, Dr Irfaan Ali-led People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) government within the last year alone. SEE FULL STORY ON PAGE 13
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Guyana Chronicle among awardees for creating job opportunities
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