Facts and Figures: Gender inequality
Name: Worldwide Women in Civil Service and Security
Description: Percentage of women at various levels in civil service, police forces, and military.
Source: Data collected for the WPSP Index — women public service project.
Year: 2017
http://data.50x50movement.org/data-set-view/view/599b74ed3932f46d722ab317
I chose to put the percentages of Worldwide Women’s participation in Civil Service and Security, because in all fields the percentages are below %50 which means that men remain over-represented in almost all positions of power in the world. In order to sustain gender equality development goals; we should ensure that women are effective and fully participating and are getting equal opportunities for leadership at all levels, decision making, police forces, military seeing, or civil service. What this chart makes visible is the unfortunate domination of men in civil service and security (maybe this is why we don’t live in a safe world!) What this chart fails to show, is the reasons behind those percentages (laws? physical ability?, woman’s entourage not letting her get into such jobs?)
Name: Youth Literacy Young Women
Description: Percentage of people aged 15 to 24 years who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement on their everyday life. Generally, ‘literacy’ also encompasses ‘numeracy’, the ability to make simple arithmetic calculations.
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, http://data.uis.unesco.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=EDULIT_DS&lang=en
Taken from: http://data.50x50movement.org/data-set-view/view/5833d1a6e9ce173b284ad7ad
The previous chart shows that the majority of the Arab world has more than 98% literacy rate among women which means that almost all women were capable of receiving education, thus they are prepared to enter the labor force. The next chart is going to show the labor force in the Arab world showing the female percentages (working females.)
Link: http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=gender-statistics#
Indicator Name: Female Labor force in 2017, in the Middle East and North Africa
Because education is the most powerful element for reducing poverty in the world, it is truly critical to analyse literacy rate and compare it on a gender bases in order for women and men to have equal access to knowledge, and thus work, to finally set a world of equality and less (to no) poverty. In many countries, men and women are highly literate while in some other countries women literacy rate are less than men’s. Women, just like men, when given education can contribute in making a progress in society and provide a larger workforce and contribute positively to the financial state of countries. The Arab World finally came to reinforce this idea and have more literacy rate among women. Iraq has the lowest literacy race amongst women which is questionable with all the development trying to take place in the Arab world in general.
