{"id":9093,"date":"2016-10-29T14:34:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T06:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=9093"},"modified":"2016-10-28T14:37:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T06:37:45","slug":"philippines-is-7th-most-gender-equal-society-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/10\/29\/philippines-is-7th-most-gender-equal-society-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines is 7th most gender-equal society in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the recently released Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Philippines ranked 7<sup>TH<\/sup> out of 144 countries as having the most-gender equal society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9094\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/phgender.png\" alt=\"phgender\" width=\"579\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>PH ON GENDER GAP REPORT. 7<sup>TH<\/sup> in the world, highest in East Asia and the Pacific. Screengrabbed from WEF Website<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Based on the report, the Philippines maintained its respective ranking as the highest performer in the East Asia and the Pacific region. In the Global Gender Gap Index, it ranked number 21 in the economic participation and opportunity, 1<sup>st<\/sup> in educational attainment, 1<sup>st<\/sup> in health and survival, and 17<sup>th<\/sup> in political empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince 2006, the country has fully closed its gender gap on the Health and Survival subindex,\u201d said WEF.WEF measured key areas including the country\u2019s economy, politics, education, and health. Part of the top 10 are Nicaragua at 10<sup>th<\/sup>, New Zealand at 9<sup>th<\/sup>, Slovenia at 8<sup>th<\/sup>, Ireland at 6<sup>th<\/sup>, Rwanda places 5<sup>th<\/sup>, Sweden on number 4, Norway at 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, Finland on the second spot, and Iceland taking the top spot for eight consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the Gender Gap report, the top spots are claimed by smaller European countries particularly Nordics, and only two countries come from the East Asia and the Pacific region. Other countries part of the list come from the Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Carribean region.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2016\/10\/26\/1637479\/philippines-no.-1-gender-equality-asia-7th-world\">PhilStar<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-gender-gap-report-2016\/top-ten\/\">World Economic Forum<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sg.finance.yahoo.com\/photos\/wef-ranks-gender-equality-101347764\/p-7-philippines-photo-getty-photo-101347916.html\">Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recently released Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Philippines ranked 7TH out of 144 countries as having the most-gender equal society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[544,119,545],"class_list":["post-9093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-gender-gap","tag-philippines","tag-world-economic-forum"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/phgender-e1477636454729.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9097,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions\/9097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}