Women's Economic Opportunity Index - Economist Intelligence Unit

Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and rankingCountry pagesIranScore RankOVERALL SCORE 33.0 103Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 35.2 62Delivering financial services 50.0 =8Private sector credit 50.0 =41Women’s access to finance programmes 25.0 =66Building credit histories 15.7 64Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 32.6 82Starting a business 64.6 33Infrastructure risk 38.5 =64Mobile telephone subscribers 27.3 81Regulatory quality 0.0 113LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 20.8 110LABOUR POLICY 22.1 112Maternity and paternity leave and provision 42.9 =66Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 28.6 =80Legal restrictions on job types 25.0 =95Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 14.3 =98Differential retirement age 0.0 =103LABOUR PRACTICE 19.5 =102De facto discrimination at work 44.5 =96Access to childcare 33.3 =42Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 0.0 =61Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 0.0 =75EDUCATION AND TRAINING 51.2 82Primary and secondary education, women 76.0 10Literacy rate, women 71.4 85Tertiary education, women 37.2 53SME support/development training 20.0 =104WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 37.6 111Adolescent fertility rate 88.0 =48Freedom of movement, women 50.0 =93Property ownership rights 50.0 =79Addressing violence against women 0.0 =109CEDAW ratification 0.0 =111GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceIranWorld averageBest in WorldIrelandScore RankOVERALL SCORE 76.4 16Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 70.8 =10Women’s access to finance programmes 100.0 =1Delivering financial services 100.0 =1Building credit histories 83.3 =9Private sector credit 0.0 =96Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 79.0 8Regulatory quality 97.7 3Starting a business 88.5 9Infrastructure risk 72.5 =26Mobile telephone subscribers 57.4 25LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 69.3 22LABOUR POLICY 86.4 11Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 100.0 =1Differential retirement age 100.0 =1Maternity and paternity leave and provision 85.7 =23Legal restrictions on job types 75.0 =54Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 71.4 =30LABOUR PRACTICE 52.3 29Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 83.3 =8De facto discrimination at work 75.7 =32Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 50.0 =24Access to childcare 0.0 =91EDUCATION AND TRAINING 81.5 15Literacy rate, women 99.0 =12Primary and secondary education, women 84.7 4SME support/development training 80.0 =13Tertiary education, women 62.4 29WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 88.4 41Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 92.1 =36CEDAW ratification 50.0 =78GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceIrelandWorld averageBest in World69© Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2010