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Ammon News - Jordan ranks 145th out of 146 countries with regard to women’s participation in the labour force, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2022, delivered by the World Economic Forum.

The report also indicates that Jordan maintained almost the same score as last year, of 0.639 or 122nd in the world, which was 5th in the MENA region at the time.

For the more general category of women’s economic participation and opportunity, Jordan ranks 125th globally, compared with 133 in 2021. While on the women’s educational attainment index, Jordan advanced by 18 spots from last year, ranking 66th this year compared to 84th in 2021, according to the report.

The report also indicates that women’s representation in public and political life in Jordan dropped from 2021 to a rank of 136th globally. The current Cabinet includes only two female ministers and women constitute only 12.4 per cent of the Lower House. Women’s representation in the Senate now constitutes 10.8 per cent, down from 15.4 per cent in 2020.

According to its website, the Global Gender Gap Index provides benchmarks on the current states and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions: Economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survivaland political empowerment.

In 2022, the global gender gap has been closed by 68.1 per cent, meaning that — at the current rate of progress — it will take 132 years to reach full parity, the report noted.

The report states that the Middle East and North Africa region has the second-largest gender gap yet to close, only behind South Asia.