Women's Economic Opportunity Index - Economist Intelligence Unit

Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and rankingCountry pagesAustraliaScore RankOVERALL SCORE 80.5 10Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 70.8 =10Women’s access to finance programmes 100.0 =1Building credit histories 83.3 =9Delivering financial services 50.0 =8Private sector credit 50.0 =41Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 80.9 4Starting a business 97.7 =3Regulatory quality 93.9 6Infrastructure risk 82.4 =16Mobile telephone subscribers 49.7 39LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 73.6 18LABOUR POLICY 71.0 42Legal restrictions on job types 100.0 =1Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 85.7 =12Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 85.7 =3Differential retirement age 83.3 =63Maternity and paternity leave and provision 0.0 =112LABOUR PRACTICE 76.3 11Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 83.3 =8Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 83.3 =4De facto discrimination at work 71.8 43Access to childcare 66.7 =13EDUCATION AND TRAINING 95.1 3Primary and secondary education, women 100.0 1SME support/development training 100.0 =1Literacy rate, women 99.0 =12Tertiary education, women 81.4 17WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 88.6 40Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 93.2 =33CEDAW ratification 50.0 =78GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceAustraliaWorld averageBest in WorldAustriaScore RankOVERALL SCORE 74.0 19Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 59.8 25Women’s access to finance programmes 100.0 =1Delivering financial services 50.0 =8Private sector credit 50.0 =41Building credit histories 39.2 40Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 69.0 26Regulatory quality 90.2 13Infrastructure risk 85.7 =13Mobile telephone subscribers 61.7 15Starting a business 38.2 86LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 76.4 14LABOUR PRACTICE 71.5 15Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 83.3 =8Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 83.3 =4Access to childcare 66.7 =13De facto discrimination at work 52.5 88LABOUR POLICY 81.4 =20Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 100.0 =1Legal restrictions on job types 100.0 =1Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 85.7 =3Maternity and paternity leave and provision 71.4 =41Differential retirement age 50.0 =71EDUCATION AND TRAINING 73.3 34Literacy rate, women 99.0 =12SME support/development training 80.0 =13Primary and secondary education, women 62.8 44Tertiary education, women 51.4 43WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 89.0 39Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 94.8 =24CEDAW ratification 50.0 =78GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceAustriaWorld averageBest in World48© Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2010