The 10 Worst Countries for Women

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10. Morocco
> Female-to-male income ratio: 0.28 (tied 8th worst)
> Labor force participation (m/f): 79% / 27%
> Literacy rate (m/f): 76% / 58%
> Pct. women in parliament: 17%

Morocco was one of the worst rated countries for women, according to the WEF’s 2014 Global Gender Gap Index. Few nations had a greater disparity between men’s and women’s participation in the economy. Just 27% of Moroccan women were in the labor force, well below the 79% participation rate for men. Further, women with jobs earned an average of just $3,123 annually, versus nearly $11,000 for men — more than three times as much. Morocco also has a considerable gap in literacy rates. Just 58% of women were considered literate versus 76% of men.

9. Jordan
> Female-to-male income ratio: 0.18 (tied- 3rd worst)
> Labor force participation (m/f): 69% / 16%
> Literacy rate (m/f): 98% / 97%
> Pct. women in parliament: 12%

Just 16% of Jordanian women participated in the labor force, one of the worst rates in the world. The difference in incomes between men and women was also among the world’s worst. While the average man in Jordan earned $19,300 annually, higher than in more than half of all countries reviewed by the WEF, the average woman earned only roughly 18% of that, or $3,442 on average. Additionally, despite the prominent international role played by Queen Rania of Jordan, women in general have limited representation in the country’s political offices. Just 12% of parliament seats and 11% of ministerial positions were held by women, both among the lower rates in the world.



8. Lebanon
> Female-to-male income ratio: 0.27 (7th worst)
> Labor force participation (m/f): 76% / 26%
> Literacy rate (m/f): 93% / 86%
> Pct. women in parliament: 3%

Few nations were rated worse than Lebanon for women’s political empowerment. Just 3% of seats in Lebanon’s parliament were held by women, one of the absolute lowest rates. Further, none of the country’s ministerial positions were occupied by women. One problem for many women in the country may be that religious laws cover issues of personal status, such as marriage and divorce. Despite passing a new anti-domestic violence law in April 2014, Human Rights Watch said the country still has significant room for improvement. In particular, the organization said that “Exempting matters governed by personal status laws from the domestic violence law undermines women’s security in the home.”



7. Cote d’Ivoire
> Female-to-male income ratio: 0.49 (38th worst)
> Labor force participation (m/f): 82% / 53%
> Literacy rate (m/f): 52% / 30%
> Pct. women in parliament: 9%

The gap in educational attainment between men and women is especially problematic in Cote d’Ivoire. Although the 52% literacy rate among men in the country was quite low, women’s literacy rate was even lower, at only 30%. Enrollment of women at every level of school is also very low. Just 56% of primary school-aged girls were enrolled in school, among the lowest rates in the world. By secondary school, the enrollment rate dropped to 14%. Limited access to schooling, for both genders, also contributed to Cote d’Ivoire’s low score on the Human Development Index, where it ranked in the lowest decile of all countries. According to UNICEF, “The low education rate is essentially due to the insufficient educational offer[ings]: not enough teachers and school buildings.” The organization added, “Children who go to school do not always benefit from quality teaching” in Cote d’Ivoire.


6. Iran
> Female-to-male income ratio: 0.17 (the worst)
> Labor force participation (m/f): 76% / 17%
> Literacy rate (m/f): 89% / 79%
> Pct. women in parliament: 3%

Iran has some of the world’s greatest disparities in labor force participation and incomes. Just 17% of women were in the labor force, versus 76% of men. And women earned an average of just $4,656 annually, versus $26,644 for men. According to a Reuters story published in May, an edict, issued by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to increase the country’s population has concerned many reformers already worried about women’s limited role in the workforce. Further, few nations rank worse for women’s participation in politics. In fact, Iran disqualified all female candidates in the last presidential election. According to Human Rights Watch, women need a male guardian’s approval to marry, and travel internationally.

5. Mali
> Female-to-male income ratio: 0.41 (23rd worst)
> Labor force participation (m/f): 82% / 52%
> Literacy rate (m/f): 43% / 25%
> Pct. women in parliament: 10%

Mali has some of the worst disparities between men and women in both educational attainment and health. Among the reasons for this are the low literacy rate for women of just 25% and the low primary school enrollment rate of 64%, both among the worst worldwide. Also, women had a healthy life expectancy of just 48 years — among the lowest in the world. Mali was one of just three nations where the healthy life expectancy of women was lower than that of men. In 2012, religious extremists briefly seized a large portion of northern Mali before being pushed back by a French-led intervention. In the time these groups occupied the country they were accused of numerous human rights atrocities against women.

4. Syria
> Female-to-male income ratio: N/A
> Labor force participation (m/f): 76% / 14%
> Literacy rate (m/f): 91% / 79%
> Pct. women in parliament: 12%

Syria had some of the worst gender gaps for economic participation. Just 14% of women in the country were in the labor force, versus 76% of men. Further, the country also ranked poorly for women’s political empowerment. Just 12% of parliamentary positions and 9% of all ministerial positions were held by women. Syria ranked as one of the worst countries for women despite a far higher healthy life expectancy for women. While women were expected to live 65 years in good health, men were expected to live only 55 years in good health. One reason behind this disparity is likely the ongoing conflict in Syria, which remains extremely violent and unresolved. Recently, the United States began launching airstrikes in Syria as part of its plans to combat the terrorist group ISIL.

3. Chad
> Female-to-male income ratio: 0.62 (52nd best)
> Labor force participation (m/f): 79% / 65%
> Literacy rate (m/f): 47% / 28%
> Pct. women in parliament: 15%

Chad is one of the lowest-rated countries on the United Nation’s Human Development Index. It has suffered from chronic regional instability, including spillover from conflicts in Darfur and in Central African Republic. Unlike most nations on this list, disparities in work opportunities and incomes are not especially large in Chad. However, this could be due in large part to the population’s heavy reliance on subsistence agriculture. Chad ranked as the worst country in the world for gender-driven disparities in educational attainment. Just 28% of women in the country could read and only 55% of school-age girls were enrolled in primary school, both among the worst rates in the world.


2. Pakistan
> Female-to-male income ratio: 0.18 (tied-3rd worst)
> Labor force participation (m/f): 86% / 25%
> Literacy rate (m/f): 67% / 42%
> Pct. women in parliament: 21%

Pakistan is among the nations with the widest disparities between women and men in economic participation and opportunity. For example, just one-quarter of Pakistani women were in the labor force, versus 86% of men. Similarly, the disparity in educational attainment is also quite large. Just 67% of school-aged girls in Pakistan attended primary school, a figure that falls to just 31% for secondary school. By contrast, enrollment rates for boys were 77% and 41%, respectively. Even worse was the gap in literacy rate between females and males — just 42% of women could read versus 67% of men.

1. Yemen
> Female-to-male income ratio: 0.28 (tied-8th worst)
> Labor force participation (m/f): 74% / 26%
> Literacy rate (m/f): 83% / 50%
> Pct. women in parliament: 0%

Yemen is the world’s worst country for women in 2014, according to the WEF. In addition to being one of the worst countries in women’s economic participation and opportunity, Yemen received some of the world’s worst scores in relative educational attainment and political participation for females. Just half of women in the country could read, versus 83% of men. Further, women accounted for just 9% of ministerial positions and for none of the positions in parliament. Child marriage is a huge problem in Yemen. According to Human Rights Watch, as of 2006, 52% of Yemeni girls were married before they reached 18, and 14% were married before they reached 15 years of age.



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[VCheng]

Income? Literacy? Women in Parliament? How about something even more basic, like food? The situation in Thar is even worse.

Women in Balochistan severely malnourished, experts warn - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

Women in Balochistan severely malnourished, experts warn
Syed Ali Shah

Health experts in Balochistan are sounding the alarm bells as scores of women continue to suffer from malnourishment and anemia, a major cause of increasing maternal mortality rate in the province.

The warning comes just weeks after the Global Nutrition Report said the 'world had crossed the malnutrition red line.'

Globally, malnutrition led to “11% of GDP being squandered as a result of lives lost, less learning, less earning and days lost to illness,” it added.

In Balochistan, poverty and unemployment coupled with worsening law and order situation have deepened woes and severely affected the nutritional status of women.

According to National Nutrition Survey (NNS) conducted in 2001, 26.9 per cent of women were anemic. The numbers jumped from 26.9 to 49 per cent in 2011. The NNS portrayed a bleak picture of Balochistan in terms of malnourishment as compared to other provinces of the country.

According to the same survey, 63 per cent of the population of Balochistan was faced with food insecurity.

“When mothers are anemic, they give birth to malnourished children and the cycle continues,” Dr Ali Nasir Bugti, who heads a nutrition program for weak mothers in Balochistan, tells Dawn.com. Most of the women are iron deficient, he says.

The Balochistan government did launch a nutrition program for anemic mothers and malnourished children in nine districts in collaboration with World Food Program (WFP) but it has been largely unsuccessful in addressing the problem.

“We are in a state of emergency in terms of malnourishment among mothers and kids,” Dr. Bugti said.

The local government, preoccupied with the deteriorating security situation and extremism has failed to address the basic health issues in the province. A large portion of financial budget was spent on maintaining the law and order rather than improving social indicators such as health, education, drinking water and sanitation.

According to NNS 2011, 36 per cent women were under weight in far-flung areas of Balochistan. However, independent sources put the number much higher than what was being quoted by the NNS 2011.

Multiple pregnancies remained another major factor in troubled and militancy-hit parts of the province. Most of the women in the strictly veiled and tribal society give birth to more than half a dozen children. In absence of proper medical facilities and proper food, most of the women fall prey to various diseases.

“In our social set up, women are prone to anemia more than men because of a poor-diet,” Dr. Abida Niamatullah, a well-known gynecologist said. In Balochistan’s strictly veiled and tribal society, men are served food first and women are supposed to wait for their turn.

During pregnancy and breast feeding, every woman needs extra-nutrition but very few families manage to ensure provision of the required food to expecting women and those breast feeding.

“Most of my patients are anemic,” Dr. Abida said.

Targeted killings, kidnappings and bomb explosions in some areas of the province have displaced a large number families. The internally displaced mothers do not get a proper diet, which compounds their health problems. Subsequently, the anemic women give birth to malnourished children who then battle for survival.

“Both women and children are faced with anemia,” Dr Abida, who serves as a gynecologist in one of the remote areas of Quetta, says.

Besides increasing maternal mortality rate, child mortality rates are also very high in Balochistan as compared to other parts of the country.

“63 out of 1000 newborns die within 28 days of their birth,” Nadeem Shahid, a health expert told Dawn.

Bad governance coupled with conflict and militarisation have deprived people of basic facilities and female doctors, in particular, are reluctant to serve in remote parts of the province. The ailing female segment of the society has been left to nursed by the aged women of villages in terms of treatment.

“Government is determined to ensure provision of proper diet to malnourished women”, Rehmat Baloch, the Balochistan Home Minister tells Dawn.com but tackling the issue is easier said than done.

According to Save the Children’s State of World’s Mothers Report 2014, more than 60 million women and children are in need of humanitarian assistance this year across the globe. Over half of maternal and child deaths world wide occur in crisis affected places. Still the majority of these deaths are preventable; the report said.

Baluchistan has also been under the grip of violent insurgency coupled with religious militancy for more than twelve years now. Women here are in an urgent need of food, shelter and health facilities in different troubled parts of the province..

Cultural barriers make it complicated for mothers to breastfeed their babies. Many are responsible for a large household and often they already have a number of other children to care for.

In rural Balochistan, literacy rate among women is the lowest and they cannot speak for their rights. They remain deprived of economic, social, political and cultural rights in a province that covers half of the country in terms of area.

 

[TimeTraveller]

I think India should also be in this list.....

 

[root]

Women should be given equal oppourtunity infact Pakistan should have female prime minister they are more competent as par my observation.

 

[WAJsal]

something just aint right

 

[oFFbEAT]

............forget it....

 

[WAJsal]

Income? Literacy? Women in Parliament? How about something even more basic, like food? The situation in Thar is even worse.

Women in Balochistan severely malnourished, experts warn - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

Women in Balochistan severely malnourished, experts warn
Syed Ali Shah

Health experts in Balochistan are sounding the alarm bells as scores of women continue to suffer from malnourishment and anemia, a major cause of increasing maternal mortality rate in the province.

The warning comes just weeks after the Global Nutrition Report said the 'world had crossed the malnutrition red line.'

Globally, malnutrition led to “11% of GDP being squandered as a result of lives lost, less learning, less earning and days lost to illness,” it added.

In Balochistan, poverty and unemployment coupled with worsening law and order situation have deepened woes and severely affected the nutritional status of women.

According to National Nutrition Survey (NNS) conducted in 2001, 26.9 per cent of women were anemic. The numbers jumped from 26.9 to 49 per cent in 2011. The NNS portrayed a bleak picture of Balochistan in terms of malnourishment as compared to other provinces of the country.

According to the same survey, 63 per cent of the population of Balochistan was faced with food insecurity.

“When mothers are anemic, they give birth to malnourished children and the cycle continues,” Dr Ali Nasir Bugti, who heads a nutrition program for weak mothers in Balochistan, tells Dawn.com. Most of the women are iron deficient, he says.

The Balochistan government did launch a nutrition program for anemic mothers and malnourished children in nine districts in collaboration with World Food Program (WFP) but it has been largely unsuccessful in addressing the problem.

“We are in a state of emergency in terms of malnourishment among mothers and kids,” Dr. Bugti said.

The local government, preoccupied with the deteriorating security situation and extremism has failed to address the basic health issues in the province. A large portion of financial budget was spent on maintaining the law and order rather than improving social indicators such as health, education, drinking water and sanitation.

According to NNS 2011, 36 per cent women were under weight in far-flung areas of Balochistan. However, independent sources put the number much higher than what was being quoted by the NNS 2011.

Multiple pregnancies remained another major factor in troubled and militancy-hit parts of the province. Most of the women in the strictly veiled and tribal society give birth to more than half a dozen children. In absence of proper medical facilities and proper food, most of the women fall prey to various diseases.

“In our social set up, women are prone to anemia more than men because of a poor-diet,” Dr. Abida Niamatullah, a well-known gynecologist said. In Balochistan’s strictly veiled and tribal society, men are served food first and women are supposed to wait for their turn.

During pregnancy and breast feeding, every woman needs extra-nutrition but very few families manage to ensure provision of the required food to expecting women and those breast feeding.

“Most of my patients are anemic,” Dr. Abida said.

Targeted killings, kidnappings and bomb explosions in some areas of the province have displaced a large number families. The internally displaced mothers do not get a proper diet, which compounds their health problems. Subsequently, the anemic women give birth to malnourished children who then battle for survival.

“Both women and children are faced with anemia,” Dr Abida, who serves as a gynecologist in one of the remote areas of Quetta, says.

Besides increasing maternal mortality rate, child mortality rates are also very high in Balochistan as compared to other parts of the country.

“63 out of 1000 newborns die within 28 days of their birth,” Nadeem Shahid, a health expert told Dawn.

Bad governance coupled with conflict and militarisation have deprived people of basic facilities and female doctors, in particular, are reluctant to serve in remote parts of the province. The ailing female segment of the society has been left to nursed by the aged women of villages in terms of treatment.

“Government is determined to ensure provision of proper diet to malnourished women”, Rehmat Baloch, the Balochistan Home Minister tells Dawn.com but tackling the issue is easier said than done.

According to Save the Children’s State of World’s Mothers Report 2014, more than 60 million women and children are in need of humanitarian assistance this year across the globe. Over half of maternal and child deaths world wide occur in crisis affected places. Still the majority of these deaths are preventable; the report said.

Baluchistan has also been under the grip of violent insurgency coupled with religious militancy for more than twelve years now. Women here are in an urgent need of food, shelter and health facilities in different troubled parts of the province..

Cultural barriers make it complicated for mothers to breastfeed their babies. Many are responsible for a large household and often they already have a number of other children to care for.

In rural Balochistan, literacy rate among women is the lowest and they cannot speak for their rights. They remain deprived of economic, social, political and cultural rights in a province that covers half of the country in terms of area.

why isnt media discussing this,OMG, baloch AWAM needs a leader

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Women should be given equal oppourtunity infact Pakistan should have female prime minister they are more competent as par my observation.

We had the first female PM in the muslim world.. Generals,female fighter pilots,all woman counter terrorism units,police officers n commandos,business women,even female taxi and rickshaw drivers..!

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

something just aint right

Gilgit-Baltistan region is probably the best in this area.. Highest literacy rate,female fighter pilots,army officers and so on..

 

[WAJsal]

Gilgit-Baltistan region is probably the best in this area.. Highest literacy rate,female fighter pilots,army officers and so on..

im from the region yet i dont feel satisfied if our provincial govt is given the type of power other provinces are GB will be an example for the rest of the country,do u have any idea how much time it takes to build a road forget the terrain etc health problems are on the rise ,GOOD to see chinese working in GB

 

[haviZsultan]

The horrible conditions for women can be seen everywhere. They are treated as second class citizens in our country. There is a perception that women only live to do household chores and to produce babies. This is an incorrect perception. Those who say this is part of our culture should look at Bibi Khadija. She was a business woman and extremely active.

Women should have equal rights to men. They deserve respect and a place in the work force. The number of women working is sharply lower than the men working. Even the literacy rate shows the same thing. The literacy rate is significantly lower for women.

We should work hard to improve conditions for women.

 

[Shark2]

I am surprised that Afghanistan is not in the list

 

[marbella]

these datas may not be correct. riazhaq may throw some light on this.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

im from the region yet i dont feel satisfied if our provincial govt is given the type of power other provinces are GB will be an example for the rest of the country,do u have any idea how much time it takes to build a road forget the terrain etc health problems are on the rise ,GOOD to see chinese working in GB

Still a billion times better from where I come from..

 

[Dem!god]

this cannot be right .. as many Pakistanis on pdf claim, Pakistan to be a developed nation..
the article is RAW/CIA/MOSSAD conspiracy.. to mangling Pakistan..