{"id":168277,"date":"2012-03-14T16:13:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T12:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=168277"},"modified":"2012-03-14T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T12:15:22","slug":"better-economic-opportunities-for-women-in-armenia-georgia-than-in-azerbaijan-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/14\/better-economic-opportunities-for-women-in-armenia-georgia-than-in-azerbaijan-russia.html","title":{"rendered":"Better Economic Opportunities for Women in Armenia, Georgia Than in Azerbaijan, Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Women\u2019s Economic Opportunity (WEO) Index, created by the Economist Intelligence Unit, aims to measure progress in the economic advancement of women. It draws on data from a wide range of international organizations, including the UN, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and many others. The 2012 report assessed the enabling environment for women&#8217;s economic participation in 128 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The result? At the top of the list is Switzerland with a score of 90.4 (out of a possible 100). Ranking highest among former Soviet countries (not including the Baltic states) is Ukraine at 57th place (and a score of 55.4), followed by Georgia, Moldova and Kazakhstan ranking at 59th through 61st (all with a score of 54.5). Belarus is at 62nd place with a score of 53.8.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia is ranked at 64th place (with a score of 53.3), followed by Turkey at 65th place; Russia, 66; Azerbaijan, 90; Kyrgyz Republic, 94; Tajikistan, 100; Iran, 117; and Turkmenistan, 118.<\/p>\n<p>The WEO ranking list concludes with Sudan at 128th place and a score of 19.2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/table1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-168167\" title=\"table1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/table1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/table1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/table1-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In terms of income, the countries have been divided into 4 groups, based on World Bank figures: those earning $11,909 or more; those earning $3,856\u2013$11,905; those earning $976\u2013$3,855; and those earning less $975 or less.<\/p>\n<p>In this category, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are only represented in the second group with Kazakhstan in 22nd place, Belarus, 23; and Russia, 66. Women earn at least $3,856 annually in this group. Turkey is also in this list at 25th place.<\/p>\n<p>In the third group (those earning $976\u2013$3,855) are Ukraine (4th place), Georgia (5), Moldova (6), Armenia (7), Azerbaijan (21), Uzbekistan (24), Iran (33) and Turkmenistan (34).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/table2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-168169\" title=\"table2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/table2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/table2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/table2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/table2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan are in the 4th (lowest) category, in 4th and 7th places, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>This list concludes with Chad.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Women\u2019s Economic Opportunity (WEO) Index, created by the Economist Intelligence Unit, aims to measure progress in the economic advancement of&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[39320,39321,12260,39319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}