Women's Economic Opportunity Index - Economist Intelligence Unit

Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and rankingCountry pagesLithuaniaScore RankOVERALL SCORE 71.6 25Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 54.6 34Women’s access to finance programmes 75.0 =32Private sector credit 75.0 =28Delivering financial services 50.0 =8Building credit histories 18.4 59Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 64.5 31Regulatory quality 76.4 26Mobile telephone subscribers 72.2 6Infrastructure risk 62.6 =37Starting a business 46.7 68LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 66.5 23LABOUR POLICY 76.7 28Maternity and paternity leave and provision 100.0 =1Legal restrictions on job types 100.0 =1Differential retirement age 83.3 =63Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 57.1 =38Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 42.9 =68LABOUR PRACTICE 56.4 23De facto discrimination at work 75.7 =32Access to childcare 66.7 =13Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 50.0 =24Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 33.3 =43EDUCATION AND TRAINING 79.3 20Literacy rate, women 99.9 3Tertiary education, women 94.5 4Primary and secondary education, women 62.9 43SME support/development training 60.0 =40WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 98.2 17Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1CEDAW ratification 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 91.1 41GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceLithuaniaWorld averageBest in WorldLuxembourgScore RankOVERALL SCORE 71.9 24Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 37.5 54Women’s access to finance programmes 100.0 =1Delivering financial services 50.0 =8Building credit histories 0.0 =102Private sector credit 0.0 =96Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 77.1 12Regulatory quality 92.2 9Infrastructure risk 90.1 =9Mobile telephone subscribers 70.2 7Starting a business 56.1 51LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 73.6 19LABOUR POLICY 82.9 17Legal restrictions on job types 100.0 =1Differential retirement age 100.0 =1Maternity and paternity leave and provision 85.7 =23Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 71.4 =30Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 57.1 =38LABOUR PRACTICE 64.3 19De facto discrimination at work 73.9 38Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 66.7 =18Access to childcare 66.7 =13Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 50.0 =24EDUCATION AND TRAINING 70.2 37SME support/development training 100.0 =1Literacy rate, women 99.0 =12Primary and secondary education, women 72.7 16Tertiary education, women 9.0 90WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 99.2 =7Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1CEDAW ratification 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 95.8 =18GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceLuxembourgWorld averageBest in World76© Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2010