HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2009
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Gender empowerment measure and its components
Gender empowerment measure (GEM)
HDI rank
Rank
Value
VERY HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 1 Norway 2 Australia 3 Iceland 4 Canada 5 Ireland 6 Netherlands 7 Sweden 8 France 9 Switzerland 10 Japan 11 Luxembourg 12 Finland 13 United States 14 Austria 15 Spain 16 Denmark 17 Belgium 18 Italy 19 Liechtenstein 20 New Zealand 21 United Kingdom 22 Germany 23 Singapore 24 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 25 Greece 26 Korea (Republic of) 27 Israel 28 Andorra 29 Slovenia 30 Brunei Darussalam 31 Kuwait 32 Cyprus 33 Qatar 34 Portugal 35 United Arab Emirates 36 Czech Republic 37 Barbados 38 Malta
2 7 8 12 22 5 1 17 13 57 .. 3 18 20 11 4 6 21 .. 10 15 9 16 .. 28 61 23 .. 34 .. .. 48 88 19 25 31 37 74
0.906 0.870 0.859 0.830 0.722 0.882 0.909 0.779 0.822 0.567 .. 0.902 0.767 0.744 0.835 0.896 0.874 0.741 .. 0.841 0.790 0.852 0.786 .. 0.677 0.554 0.705 .. 0.641 .. .. 0.603 0.445 0.753 0.691 0.664 0.632 0.531
Seats in parliament held by womena (% of total)
36 g 30 g 33 g 25 g 15 g 39 g 47 g 20 g 27 g 12 23 g 42 17 g 27 g 34 g 38 g 36 g 20 g 24 34 20 g 31 g 24 .. 15 g 14 g 18 g 25 10 g .. 3 14 g 0 28 g 23 16 g 14 9 g
Female legislators, senior officials and managersb (% of total)
31 37 30 37 31 28 32 38 30 9 h .. 29 43 27 32 28 32 34 .. 40 34 38 31 30 28 9 30 .. 34 35 h .. 15 7 32 10 29 43 19
Ratio of estimated female to male earned incomec
vote
stand for election
Year a woman became Presiding Officer of parliament or of one of its houses for the first timee
0.77 0.70 0.62 0.65 0.56 0.67 0.67 0.61 0.62 0.45 0.57 0.73 0.62 0.40 0.52 0.74 0.64 0.49 .. 0.69 0.67 0.59 0.53 0.73 0.51 0.52 0.64 .. 0.61 0.59 0.36 0.58 0.28 0.60 0.27 0.57 0.65 0.45
1913 1902, 1962 1915, 1920 1917, 1960 1918, 1928 1919 1919, 1921 1944 1971 1945, 1947 1919 1906 1920, 1965 1918 1931 1915 1919, 1948 1945 1984 1893 1918, 1928 1918 1947 .. 1952 1948 1948 1970 1946 — 2005 1960 2003 k 1931, 1976 2006 l 1920 1950 1947
1907, 1913 1902, 1962 1915, 1920 1920, 1960 1918, 1928 1917 1919, 1921 1944 1971 1945, 1947 1919 1906 1788 j 1918 1931 1915 1921 1945 1984 1919 1918, 1928 1918 1947 .. 1952 1948 1948 1973 1946 — 2005 1960 2003 1931, 1976 2006 l 1920 1950 1947
1993 1987 1974 1972 1982 1998 1991 .. 1977 1993 1989 1991 2007 1927 1999 1950 2004 1979 .. 2005 1992 1972 .. .. 2004 .. 2006 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1998 .. 1996
Year women received right tod Female professional and technical workersb (% of total)
51 57 56 56 53 50 51 48 46 46 h .. 55 56 48 49 52 49 47 .. 54 47 50 45 42 49 40 52 .. 56 37 h .. 48 25 51 21 53 52 41
HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 39 Bahrain 46 0.605 14 13 h 19 h 0.51 1973, 2002 1973, 2002 .. 40 Estonia 30 0.665 21 34 69 0.65 1918 1918 2003 41 Poland 38 0.631 18 g 36 60 0.59 1918 1918 1997 42 Slovakia 32 0.663 19 g 31 58 0.58 1920 1920 .. 43 Hungary 52 0.590 11 g 35 60 0.75 1918, 1945 1918, 1945 1963 44 Chile 75 0.526 13 g 23 h 50 h 0.42 1949 1949 2002 45 Croatia 44 0.618 21 g 21 51 0.67 1945 1945 1993 46 Lithuania 40 0.628 18 g 38 70 0.70 1919 1919 .. 47 Antigua and Barbuda .. .. 17 45 55 .. 1951 1951 1994 48 Latvia 33 0.648 20 41 66 0.67 1918 1918 1995 49 Argentina 24 0.699 40 g 23 54 0.51 1947 1947 1973 50 Uruguay 63 0.551 12 g 40 53 0.55 1932 1932 1963 51 Cuba 29 0.676 43 31 h 60 h 0.49 1934 1934 .. 52 Bahamas .. .. 25 43 63 .. 1961, 1964 1961, 1964 1997 53 Mexico 39 0.629 22 g 31 42 0.42 1947 1953 1994 54 Costa Rica 27 0.685 37 g 27 43 0.46 1949 1949 1986 55 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya .. .. 8 .. .. 0.25 1964 1964 .. 56 Oman 87 0.453 9 9 33 0.23 1994, 2003 1994, 2003 .. 57 Seychelles .. .. 24 .. .. .. 1948 1948 .. 58 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 55 0.581 19 g 27 h 61 h 0.48 1946 1946 1998 59 Saudi Arabia 106 0.299 0 10 29 0.16 — — ..
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Women in ministerial positionsf (% of total)
56 24 36 16 21 33 48 47 43 12 14 58 24 38 44 37 23 24 20 32 23 33 0 .. 12 5 12 38 18 7 7 18 8 13 8 13 28 15
4 23 26 13 21 41 24 23 9 22 23 29 19 8 16 29 0 9 20 21 0