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11. Oman

Final rank: 135

Economic participation and opportunity: 134

Educational attainment: 92

Health and survival: 100

Political empowerment: 142

Oman made certain progress in educational attainment and economic participation, recorded the same score in the area of health as in 2006, and poorly performed on political empowerment. Overall score of 0.604 puts the sultanate in 135th place which is a drop compared to 2006 when it was ranked as the 115th country.

Omen ranked as first by enrollment in primary, secondary and tertiary education, which allowed the country nearly to close the gap in educational attainment. On the other side, improvements made toward women’s economic were not enough to at least partly erase gender disparities in the area. A small share of female workers as well as the gender income gap pulled Omen near the bottom of Global Gender Gap Ranking. In regards to women’s participation in politics, Omen performed even worse. Only one percent of parliamentary seats and 7 percent of ministerial positions are held by female politicians, which puts the country on the fourth lowest position on political empowerment scale.

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