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Report: Bahamas second for equal gender economic participation and opportunity
The Bahamas is ranked second in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021 for economic participation and opportunity between men and women.
The Global Gender Gap index benchmarks 156 countries, analyzing whether gender parities exist in an effort to call government and civic leaders to action to close such gaps over time.
There were four key categories of focus: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment.
Overall, The Bahamas ranked 58 out of 156 nations.
“The economies that, to date, have the smallest economic participation and opportunity gaps include Lao PDR (91.5 percent), The Bahamas (85.7 percent) Burundi (85.5 percent) Iceland (84.6 percent), Latvia (82.2 percent), Moldova (81.1 percent) and Sweden (81 percent),” the report notes.
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World Health Day: Dealing With A ‘Pandemic Of Inequality’
The Covid-19 crisis amplified pre-existing gender gaps and the asymmetric power-relations between men and women. And this has a major impact on health and nutrition.
Covid-19 has presented not just a health emergency but also a socio-economic crisis owing to its far-reaching consequences on the economic, demographic and social fronts, prompting many to refer to it as generating a ‘pandemic of inequality’. The migrant exodus triggered by the sudden lockdown in March, 2020 turned a health emergency into a humanitarian crisis. The concomitant economic slowdown has set India’s progress back by decades. Covid-19 has wreaked havoc in the educational, health and livelihood sectors and in other areas of social development, impeding the country’s progress towards the realization of India’s commitments to the United Nation’s Sustainable
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