2023-06-21 07:05:34
WEF, 2023 Gender Gap Report
Ranked 105th out of 146 countries
6 places down from last year’s 99th place
Vulnerable due to income gap and political power
On the 20th, at the National Assembly, members of the National Assembly of the ruling and opposition parties were listening to the speech of the negotiation group by Representative Kim Ki-hyun. The proportion of women members of parliament is very low. [사진 출처 = 연합뉴스]
Korea ranked 105th out of 146 countries in the World Economic Forum (WEF), an indicator of gender equality, and found that the level of gender equality was ‘lower’.
According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2023 released by the WEF on the 20th (local time), Korea’s gender gap index was 0.680, ranking 105th out of 146 countries.
The index is displayed from 0 to 1, and the closer to 1, the better gender equality is analyzed. South Korea’s index dropped by 0.010 from last year, and its ranking also fell 6 places from 99th.
Korea’s gender gap index has risen for several years, from 108th in 2019, 102nd in 2020, and 99th last year, but this year, the ranking as well as the index itself retreated.
Since 2006, the WEF has indexed the gender gap by country in four areas: economic participation/opportunity, education level, health, and political authority, and has announced rankings every year.
This year, Korea ranked 114th in economic participation and opportunities (0.597) and 104th in educational achievement (0.977). It ranked 46th in the health sector (0.976) and 88th in the distribution of political power (0.169).
Specifically, in the case of ‘economic participation/opportunity’, it was relatively behind in the evaluation of income (119th) and advancement to high-level positions (128th). It is interpreted that the income gap between men and women is large and that women’s advancement to senior positions has been sluggish.
Looking at the ‘distribution of political power’, it recorded 0.304 in the ‘female ratio in parliament’, ranking 84th. The WEF pointed out that “Fiji, Myanmar, and Korea are the most backward countries in the distribution of political power.”
Iceland (0.912) is the country that achieves gender equality the most. It was followed by Norway (0.879), Finland (0.863), New Zealand (0.856), and Sweden (0.815), followed by Nordic countries.
Asian countries were generally at the bottom of the list. China (0.678) ranked 107th, lower than Korea, and Japan (0.647) ranked 125th, the lowest among the seven major countries (G7). India ranked 127th and Saudi Arabia ranked 131st.
The WEF predicted that, given the current gap, it would take 131 years for the world to achieve gender equality. In detail, he predicted that it would take 169 years in the economic field and 162 years in the political field.
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