Women's Economic Opportunity Index - Economist Intelligence Unit

Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and rankingCountry pagesIsraelScore RankOVERALL SCORE 70.2 28Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 58.7 27Private sector credit 100.0 =1Women’s access to finance programmes 75.0 =32Building credit histories 59.9 25Delivering financial services 0.0 =47Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 70.1 23Regulatory quality 77.9 25Infrastructure risk 72.5 =26Starting a business 69.2 =27Mobile telephone subscribers 60.6 18LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 66.3 24LABOUR POLICY 73.6 =34Maternity and paternity leave and provision 100.0 =1Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 85.7 =3Legal restrictions on job types 75.0 =54Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 57.1 =38Differential retirement age 50.0 =71LABOUR PRACTICE 59.0 20De facto discrimination at work 69.4 =47Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 66.7 =16Access to childcare 66.7 =13Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 33.3 =32EDUCATION AND TRAINING 76.2 30Literacy rate, women 85.9 67SME support/development training 80.0 =13Tertiary education, women 71.5 22Primary and secondary education, women 67.5 26WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 83.6 59Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 93.2 =33CEDAW ratification 25.0 =97GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceIsraelWorld averageBest in WorldItalyScore RankOVERALL SCORE 68.3 31Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 66.2 17Women’s access to finance programmes 100.0 =1Private sector credit 100.0 =1Building credit histories 64.6 21Delivering financial services 0.0 =47Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 67.0 28Mobile telephone subscribers 72.3 5Regulatory quality 71.1 33Infrastructure risk 69.2 =31Starting a business 55.4 =53LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 52.9 44LABOUR POLICY 70.0 43Legal restrictions on job types 100.0 =1Maternity and paternity leave and provision 85.7 =23Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 57.1 =38Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 57.1 =48Differential retirement age 50.0 =71LABOUR PRACTICE 35.8 61Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 50.0 =24Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 33.3 =32Access to childcare 33.3 =42De facto discrimination at work 26.7 110EDUCATION AND TRAINING 81.0 16Literacy rate, women 98.5 38SME support/development training 80.0 =13Primary and secondary education, women 74.7 13Tertiary education, women 70.8 23WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 89.5 35Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 97.4 =13CEDAW ratification 50.0 =78GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceItalyWorld averageBest in World70© Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2010