11 Worst Countries for Gender Equality

7. Morocco

Final rank: 139

Economic participation and opportunity: 140

Educational attainment: 123

Health and survival: 95

Political empowerment: 97

Morocco occupies 97th place on political empowerment scale which is the second best position among listed countries. Although women remain underrepresented in country’s bodies, female-to-male ratio is higher than in other places on the list. Morocco also recorded improvements in the areas of health and education. The country came closer to eliminating educational attainment gap mainly due to a small difference in enrollment rates between two genders. However, literacy gap between two genders is present, which affected the country’s score on educational attainment scale. Finally, women’s access to opportunities and resources in the economic area has gotten worse over the last ten years. All five economic subcategories show that Morocco is far from reaching gender equality. Men significantly outnumber women on the labor market; they earn more and hold much greater percent of leading and skilled positions. The only encouraging indicator is that unemployment rate among women is only 0.5 percent higher than among men.