11 Worst Countries for Gender Equality

9. Mali

Final rank: 137

Economic participation and opportunity: 109

Educational attainment: 139

Health and survival: 141

Political empowerment: 116

Mali made progress only in one area – education while in other three gender parity deteriorated. The country recorded the greatest fall on economic participation scale. While in 2006, Mali ranked as the 35th country by gender equality on the labor market; in 2015, it slipped to 109th spot. The country’s position also significantly dropped on politics and health scale. Despite obvious deterioration, the gender gap in economy and politics is not as wide as in previously mentioned countries. Little more than half of female working population participates in the labor force, and there is a greater number of women in parliament and government then in Egypt and Oman. The main reason Mali ranked lower than above listed countries is poor results in the areas of health and education. Only one-third of the female population is literate compared to half of all men. Additionally women’s rate of enrollment is lower than that of men’s at all three educational levels.

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