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Join on Telegram Rabat – The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region currently holds an unfortunate record for the world’s second-largest gender gap. Based on current efforts, the region would need 115 years to close it.
The MENA region’s gender gap is only second to that in South Asia. A new report from the World Economic Forum highlights that within the region, Israel, United Arab Emirates, and Lebanon are the best-performing countries. Meanwhile, countries like Qatar, Oman, and Algeria are listed as the region’s worst-performing countries.
Regarding the region’s most noteworthy countries, the World Economic Forum says in a report that compared current data to 2021, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Kuwait have made significant strides toward narrowing their domestic gender gap.
Despite the notable improvement, Morocco ranks among countries trailing behind in terms of gender economic parity.
The region seems to fare better in addressing the parity in educational attainment, the report notes. Education attainment parity currently stands at 96.2%.
In terms of education parity, Israel is the region’s best-performing country having reached full parity.
Morocco is on a list of four out of 13 countries in the region that have closed less than 95% of the gender gap on this subindex.
The report equally notes the progress the region has made in terms of allowing equal access to healthcare, pointing out that the MENA region has closed 96.4% of its healthcare gender gap.
Morocco and Egypt are at the bottom, however, in addressing the issue of equal access to healthcare.
Based on the above-mentioned data, Morocco ranks 10th out of the region’s 13 countries in the Gender Gap Index, trailing behind Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, and the region’s best-performing country, Israel.
On an international level, Morocco ranks 136 on a list of 146 countries.
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