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...overall rankings are based on statistical ratings from 0 to 1 in four categories: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. Each category received equal weight in the index...
...Global Gender Gap Report, an annual index created by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, tracks how equitably nations allocate their resources to men and women and creates a benchmark for “national gender gaps on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria...
...index was first formed in 2006, and researchers have seen progress in each subsequent year that it has been conducted...
...study aims to show how countries allocate the resources they have available, so it does not rank countries based on their level of development. Rather than ranking the absolute level of availability of healthcare, for example, the index measures the gap between the access for women...
Data for the index comes from the World Bank, ministries of education, United Nations agencies, and the World Economic Forum, Hausmann said...