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Economic opportunity for women:
- Women's Economic Opportunity Index, assessing the environment for female employees and entrepreneurs across 128 countries.
- Nearly half the world’s women of working-age are not currently active in the formal labour market.
- As governments seek to revive ailing economies, welcoming these 1.5 billion women into formal employment will become ever more important.
- The EIU’s index brings together 29 indicators measuring access to finance, education and training, legal and social status, and the general business environment.
- The chart below shows how a selection of countries have scored this year and where conditions have improved or declined.
Attitudes among Women to Domestic Violence:
- THE United Nations collects data on attitudes among women to domestic violence.
- Unfortunately attitudes to domestic violence in some of the missing places may be even worse than they are in Jordan, which comes top of this (non-comprehensive) list of bad places to be female today.
