11 Worst Countries for Gender Equality

8. Lebanon

Final rank: 138

Economic participation and opportunity: 136

Educational attainment: 104

Health and survival: 103

Political empowerment: 143

Lebanon is another country which poor rank comes as a result of gender disparities in politics and economy. Although the gap between two genders has widened in all four areas, Lebanon preserved above the average scores in educational attainment and health. High literacy rate among women, 92 percent, as well as the small difference between the number of boys and girls who attend school, allowed the country nearly to close the gap in educational access. On the other side, in three of five sub-categories that are used for determining economic participation gap, Lebanon scored extremely poorly. Only 26 percent of the female working population is employed, compared to 76 percent of the male. Additionally, a small fraction of leading positions is in hands of women. Finally, men earn four times more compared to women. The country also ranked poorly on political empowerment scale with the female-to-male ratio in parliament and government 0.03 and 0.05, retrospectively.

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