{"id":242056,"date":"2013-10-26T02:24:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T22:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=242056"},"modified":"2013-10-26T02:25:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T22:25:10","slug":"armenia-fares-poorly-in-gender-equality-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/10\/26\/armenia-fares-poorly-in-gender-equality-ranking.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia Ranks Poorly in Gender Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The World Economic Forum published its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weforum.org\/reports\/global-gender-gap-report-2013\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\">2013 Global Gender Gap report<\/span><\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIceland, Finland, and Norway are at the top of the list of 136 countries, where gender equality has been considered in the areas of political participation, economic equality, education and healthcare. Among the top 10 are Sweden, the Philippines, New Zealand, Denmark, Switzerland, and Nicaragua.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tArmenia received an overall rank of 94, dropping down two places from last year and 10 places from 2010. On the sex ratio at birth indicator, Armenia occupies 131st place; in the women in parliament indicator, 108th place; women ministers, 93rd place; equal pay for similar work, 100th place. The situation for participation in primary and elementary school and higher education is better, where opportunities for men and women were considered equal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRussia received an overall rank of 61; Georgia, 83; Azerbaijan, 99; Turkey, 120; Iran, 130. At the bottom of the list (136th place) is Yemen.<\/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>Iceland, Finland, and Norway are at the top of the list of 136 countries, where gender equality has been considered in the areas of political participation&#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":242026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21871,51026,23041],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242056"}],"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=242056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}