11 Worst Countries for a Woman to Live in

6. Jordan

With a 0.593 score, Jordan lands on the 140^th spot it is definitely one of the worst countries for a woman to live in. The reasons are quite easily seen just by glancing at the available data. For instance, women get paid less than a sixth of what men make at their jobs. At the same time, only 8 percent of the country’s legislators, senior officials and managers are women.

One area where the country sits pretty comfortably is education, with 93 percent of women being literate. 89 percent of women go on to secondary education and 50 percent enroll in tertiary education, compared to 43 percent of the men.