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.
Rents for high-end flats of the type commonly let by expatriates are the most expensive in the world, at nearly $12,000 a month.
ECA International, a human-resources consultancy, compiled the ranking, which looked at rents of comparable apartments with similar proximity to international schools, embassies and "social focal points".
Geneva and São Paulo both climbed six places up the table from their positions last year, as rents shot up around 30% in 12 months.
But Abu Dhabi, the only city in our chart where rents fell, dropped nine places as its three-year housing slump continued.
