Gender equality in Australia in another 251 years!
According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2020 released recently by the World Economic Forum (WEF) which assesses various measures of equality between males and females, in the past 14 years Australia has slipped 29 places to rank 44th globally on their gender equality benchmark. Over the same time New Zealand has gone up 1 place to 6th place. We now rank behind countries like Bolivia, Poland, Serbia, Cuba, Mexico and Rwanda!
The WEF uses 4 categories of measures to assess gender equality – economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. Despite ranking at number 1 and at equality in educational attainment in both 2006 and 2020 (along with 24 other countries), Australia has gone backwards in the rankings on all other categories in the past 14 years.
The WEF uses 4 categories of measures to assess gender equality – economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. Despite ranking at number 1 and at equality in educational attainment in both 2006 and 2020 (along with 24 other countries), Australia has gone backwards in the rankings on all other categories in the past 14 years.
Australia’s performance on gender equity (source: World Economic Forum)
According to the WEF, on current trends, gender equity will be achieved globally on average in 100 years or 4 generations. For Australia however, on trends over the last 14 years, it will take us 251 years or 10 generations to get there. By contract it will take New Zealand 58 years or a little over 2 generations.
If gender equity is that far off in Australia, does this mean rational parents of daughters in Australia should emigrate to New Zealand to give them a better chance of “a fair go” in life?
Susan Kehoe
Executive & consultant | People & Culture | HR | Transformational Change
If gender equity is that far off in Australia, does this mean rational parents of daughters in Australia should emigrate to New Zealand to give them a better chance of “a fair go” in life?
Susan Kehoe
Executive & consultant | People & Culture | HR | Transformational Change