More Indonesian women in labour market but fewer in politics, report reveals

The index, published by the World Economic Forum earlier this month, measures gender gaps based on 14 indicators across four sub-indexes, which are economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment.Indonesia’s score of 0.700 represents a 0.01 increase from 2018. On a global scale, all countries are also doing better than last year, scoring 68.6% compared to 68%.

However, there is a wide range across regions. For instance, Western Europe is the closest to gender parity with 54.4 years to go while East Asia and the Pacific region – to which Indonesia belongs – is a distant 163.4 years away to achieving gender parity.The country does particularly well in four indicators, ranking first on each: the sex ratio for legislators, senior officials and managers, enrolment in secondary education, enrolment in tertiary education and the sex ratio at birth.

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