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Trinidad Moves up 7 places in Global Gender Gap report
« on: March 08, 2014, 03:05:59 PM »
Report here: http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2013/#

PDF is here: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2013.pdf - we're on page 358/359

We were 43rd. now 36th :) Sadly nowhere near the 21st we used to occupy in 2010 and 2011, but it's an improvement.

T&T scores terribly (130th) on health and survival gap between men and women - only 6 countries in the world score worse than us, and whilst the rank isn't great (51st) the education gap is small. Whilst the rank in political engagement is good (38th) the score itself is poor - a quarter of the top countries from Scandinavia but above the US and Barbados (who ranked in 7 positions above us at 29th).

Overall, we rank 24th among the High-Income countries above the Bahamas and France, sitting a place below Spain and two below Barbados. T&T comes in 9th for Latin America and the Caribbean (Surinam and Guatemala come in worst, Nicaragua and Cuba the best). We rank 35th in terms of improvement from 2006

We come in a poor 84th in female/male labour participation rate ratio (60% for women, 83% for men), 62nd for the wage gap between men and women, 80th for income gap, 33rd for women in parliament (29w v 71m), 27th for years with a female head of state (and this'll only go up),

But... 11th for men-women government legislator ratio, 34th for professional/technical ratio (where there were more women than men), Stone cold last for female healthy life expectancy with only 62 years for women compared to 64 for men (imho related to our terrible pollution-GDP ratio), 51st for women in ministerial positions, and only 33% women teachers in tertiary sector.

Some other interesting things - female participation rate in both secondary school and tertiary (university) higher than males, there's a 1.03 sex-birth ratio (i.e. 3% more girls than boys, whey hey)

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Trinidad and Tobago ascends seven places relative to its 43rd position in the 2012 ranking due to the fall of other countries such as Malawi, Bahamas, Namibia, Guyana and Sri Lanka (p.27)

Any thoughts?
« Last Edit: March 10, 2014, 09:40:37 AM by Tiresais »

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Re: Trinidad Moves up 7 places in Global Gender Gap report
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2014, 07:22:57 PM »
t&t also have one of the largest gender gaps in the world for working participation. plenty men in the workforce with woman at home - like de 50s.

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Re: Trinidad Moves up 7 places in Global Gender Gap report
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2014, 05:42:59 AM »
Report here: http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2013/#

PDF is here: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2013.pdf - we're on page 358/359

We were 43rd. now 36th :) Sadly nowhere near the 21st we used to occupy in 2010 and 2011, but it's an improvement.

T&T scores terribly (130th) on health and survival gap between men and women - only 6 countries in the world score worse than us, and whilst the rank isn't great (51st) the education gap is small. Whilst the rank in political engagement is good (38th) the score itself is poor - a quarter of the top countries from Scandinavia but above the US and Barbados (who ranked in 7 positions above us at 29th).

Overall, we rank 24th among the High-Income countries above the Bahamas and France, sitting a place below Spain and two below Barbados. T&T comes in 9th for Latin America and the Caribbean (Surinam and Guatemala come in worst, Nicaragua and Cuba the best). We rank 35th in terms of improvement from 2006

We come in a poor 84th in female/male labour participation rate ratio (60% for women, 83% for men), 62nd for the wage gap between men and women, 80th for income gap, 33rd for women in parliament (29w v 71m), 27th for years with a female head of state (and this'll only go up),

But... 11th for men-women government legislator ratio, 34th for professional/technical ratio (where there were more women than men), Stone cold last for female life expectancy with only 62 years for women compared to 64 for men (imho related to our terrible pollution-GDP ratio), 51st for women in ministerial positions, and only 33% women teachers in tertiary sector.

Some other interesting things - female participation rate in both secondary school and tertiary (university) higher than males, there's a 1.03 sex-birth ratio (i.e. 3% more girls than boys, whey hey)

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Trinidad and Tobago ascends seven places relative to its 43rd position in the 2012 ranking due to the fall of other countries such as Malawi, Bahamas, Namibia, Guyana and Sri Lanka (p.27)

Any thoughts?

I question the validity of this statistic. Every stat I've ever seen on T&T life expectancy puts our average in the low 70s with women bringing up the rank. Just a preliminary check for instance on CIA World Factbook has the following :

total population: 71.96 years
country comparison to the world: 137
male: 69.09 years
female: 74.91 years (2013 est.)

This sends off red flags for me.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/td.html


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Re: Trinidad Moves up 7 places in Global Gender Gap report
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2014, 09:39:59 AM »
You're right my bad, the indicator is "Healthy life expectancy" not life expectancy.

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Average number of years that a person can expect to live in "full health" by taking into account years lived in less than full health due to disease and/or injury. (World Health Organisation)

 

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