Women's Economic Opportunity Index - Economist Intelligence Unit

Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and rankingCountry pagesChileScore RankOVERALL SCORE 60.9 40Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 58.5 28Private sector credit 100.0 =1Women’s access to finance programmes 50.0 =42Delivering financial services 50.0 =8Building credit histories 33.9 44Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 63.7 33Regulatory quality 88.4 16Infrastructure risk 69.2 =31Starting a business 55.4 =53Mobile telephone subscribers 41.5 59LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 47.7 62LABOUR POLICY 68.6 =44Maternity and paternity leave and provision 100.0 =1Legal restrictions on job types 100.0 =1Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 85.7 =3Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 57.1 =38Differential retirement age 0.0 =103LABOUR PRACTICE 26.8 88Access to childcare 66.7 =13De facto discrimination at work 40.4 100Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 0.0 =61Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 0.0 =75EDUCATION AND TRAINING 72.9 35Literacy rate, women 95.8 45SME support/development training 80.0 =13Primary and secondary education, women 62.0 47Tertiary education, women 53.8 38WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 75.1 75Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1CEDAW ratification 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 75.4 70Property ownership rights 0.0 =106GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceChileWorld averageBest in WorldChinaScore RankOVERALL SCORE 49.4 65Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 37.9 51Building credit histories 51.8 30Women’s access to finance programmes 50.0 =42Private sector credit 50.0 =41Delivering financial services 0.0 =47Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 32.8 81Infrastructure risk 45.1 =57Regulatory quality 38.9 75Starting a business 25.3 102Mobile telephone subscribers 22.1 90LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 46.7 66LABOUR POLICY 51.4 84Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 57.1 =38Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 57.1 =48Legal restrictions on job types 50.0 =82Differential retirement age 50.0 =71Maternity and paternity leave and provision 42.9 =66LABOUR PRACTICE 41.9 43De facto discrimination at work 67.7 58Access to childcare 66.7 =13Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 33.3 =32Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 0.0 =75EDUCATION AND TRAINING 54.5 70Literacy rate, women 87.6 62SME support/development training 60.0 =40Primary and secondary education, women 49.3 80Tertiary education, women 21.1 81WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 78.0 70Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 98.4 =6Property ownership rights 75.0 =50Addressing violence against women 66.7 =62CEDAW ratification 50.0 =78GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceChinaWorld averageBest in World56© Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2010