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Women's Economic Opportunity Index - Economist Intelligence Unit

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Women’s economic opportunityA new global index and rankingCountry pagesSwitzerlandScore RankOVERALL SCORE 75.0 18Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 48.4 42Women’s access to finance programmes 100.0 =1Delivering financial services 50.0 =8Private sector credit 25.0 =66Building credit histories 18.8 58Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 73.9 19Infrastructure risk 93.4 8Regulatory quality 90.6 12Mobile telephone subscribers 56.0 27Starting a business 55.7 52LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 80.0 10LABOUR POLICY 80.2 23Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 100.0 =1Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 85.7 =3Differential retirement age 83.3 =63Legal restrictions on job types 75.0 =54Maternity and paternity leave and provision 57.1 =51LABOUR PRACTICE 79.7 9Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 100.0 =1Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 83.3 =4De facto discrimination at work 68.8 51Access to childcare 66.7 =13EDUCATION AND TRAINING 78.0 25SME support/development training 100.0 =1Literacy rate, women 99.0 =12Primary and secondary education, women 71.1 18Tertiary education, women 41.7 49WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 89.8 32Addressing violence against women 100.0 =1Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Property ownership rights 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 99.0 =2CEDAW ratification 50.0 =78GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceSwitzerlandWorld averageBest in WorldSyriaScore RankOVERALL SCORE 31.7 106Score RankACCESS TO FINANCE 6.3 =105Private sector credit 25.0 =66Building credit histories 0.0 =102Women’s access to finance programmes 0.0 =92Delivering financial services 0.0 =47Score RankGENERAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 23.5 103Infrastructure risk 35.2 =69Starting a business 31.5 =97Mobile telephone subscribers 14.9 97Regulatory quality 12.5 108LABOUR POLICY AND PRACTICE 27.0 109LABOUR POLICY 29.3 110Differential retirement age 50.0 =71Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Policy 42.9 =55Legal restrictions on job types 25.0 =95Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Policy 14.3 =98Maternity and paternity leave and provision 14.3 =87LABOUR PRACTICE 24.7 95De facto discrimination at work 65.6 =62Access to childcare 33.3 =42Equal pay; ILO Convention 100, Practice 0.0 =61Non-discrimination,ILO Convention 111, Practice 0.0 =75EDUCATION AND TRAINING 52.1 77Literacy rate, women 70.5 86SME support/development training 60.0 =40Primary and secondary education, women 53.5 71Tertiary education, women 24.4 76WOMEN’S LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS 54.0 97Freedom of movement, women 100.0 =1Adolescent fertility rate 61.8 86Property ownership rights 50.0 =79Addressing violence against women 33.3 =95CEDAW ratification 25.0 =97GeneralBusinessEnvironmentWomen’sLegal andSocial statusLabour Policy1007550250Educationand TrainingLabourPracticeAccesstoFinanceSyriaWorld averageBest in World94© <strong>Economist</strong> <strong>Intelligence</strong> <strong>Unit</strong> Limited 2010

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