NZ ranks 5th in Global Gender Gap
New Zealand has climbed two places to rank fifth in the world in the Global Gender Gap Report 2007. At a score of .764 when 0=Inequality and 1= equality, New Zealand has moved ahead of Germany and the Philippines.
Only four of the five Nordic countries are ahead with Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland holding the top four places.
| Rank 2007 | Country | Score* | Rank 2006 |
| 1 | Sweden | 0.814 | 1 |
| 2 | Norway | 0.805 | 2 |
| 3 | Finland | 0.804 | 3 |
| 4 | Iceland | 0.783 | 4 |
| 5 | N.Zealand | 0.764 | 7 |
| 6 | Philippines | 0.762 | 6 |
| 7 | Germany | 0.761 | 5 |
| 8 | Denmark | 0.751 | 8 |
| 9 | Ireland | 0.745 | 10 |
| 10 | Spain | 0.744 | 11 |
The Global Gender Gap report measures four areas; economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment.
The report states that “New Zealand improves further in the two areas it already has particular strengths: its rank on political empowerment increased by two places to 9th position among the 128 countries, while its rank on economic participation rose by six places to 8th position this year.”
Economic participation and opportunity looks at labour force participation, wage equality for similar work, income and the number of workers as legislators, senior officials, managers, professional and technical workers.
Educational attainment measures literacy and enrolment in primary, secondary and tertiary education by gender. Health and survival measures life expectancy and sex ratio at birth and political empowerment examines women in parliament as ministers and the number of years that females have been heads of state within the past 50 years.
Download the New Zealand Gender Gap Index 2007
Download the Global Gender Gap Report 2007 (pdf; 173 pgs; 21MB)
