By IRNA
Sana’a : Yemen has been ranked 128th in the latest Global Gender Gap Report 2007 among the Middle East and World’s countries that have the smallest gap between male and female.
The report, Saba has got a copy of, said that Yemen has enabled to bridge 45% of the gender gap between men and women in domains of economy, policy and education during a year, Saba news agency reported.
According to the report, the country that has the smallest gender gap is the country that acquired the most number of points.
The Global Gender Gap Index, introduced by the World Economic Forum last year, is one such framework. It aims to be a tool for benchmarking and tracking global gender-based inequalities on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria.
The forum used strict data collected from international and non- governmental organizations to measure the size of gap between the two genders.
The Index is designed to measure gender-based gaps in access to resources and opportunities in individual countries rather than the actual levels of the available resources and opportunities in those countries, namely it is constructed to rank countries on their gender gaps, not on their development level.