Gender Equality in the Philippines

The Philippines is one of the top ten countries in the world that display gender equality at the workplace. Amazing!

I read about this in an article published by philstar.com a couple of weeks ago where the World Economic Forum rated the Philippines #9 out of 142 countries in terms of gender equality. They recently released their annual Global Gender Gap Report which rates how well a country is doing using four sub-indexes: Economic Participation, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment. If a country is viewed as having fully closed the gap in a sub-index, it is ranked #1. As such, there are several countries that can be ranked #1 in a sub-index. The Philippines is ranked #1 in both Educational Attainment (along with 24 other countries) and Health and Survival (along with 34 other countries). In fact, as of 2014, the Philippines is only one of 8 countries that have fully closed the gap in these two sub-indexes. Amazing!

While there is still some way to go in terms of Political Empowerment (where we are ranked 17) and Economic Participation (where we are ranked 24), it's still great to see that the Philippines is one of the countries leading the way in terms of gender equality. Being ranked #9 out of 142 is pretty impressive. Hope things continue to get better and the gender gap continues to close, not only in the Philippines but in the rest of the world.