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Published on 2024-03-06 09:26:26
Cape Verde leads with a score of 70, six points above the overall average of the 190 countries analyzed, in the Women, Business and Law Index of 2024 among the Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP).
This information was announced in a statement by the Cape Verdean Institute for Gender Equality and Equity (ICIEG), highlighting that, in addition to the usual indicators, two new ones were introduced, namely safety and childcare.
“In the 8 indicators previously analyzed, Cape Verde maintains an average of 86.3, with the new introductions reaching 70, being 6 points above the overall average of the 190 countries analyzed,” the document released by ICIEG reads.
In this new measurement, according to the World Bank report, it was found that women have approximately 2/3 of the rights of men and that nowhere in the world do women have the same legal rights as men in all the indicators measured, with a score of 64 out of 100, which signifies a “significant gap” in gender equality.
The Women, Business and Law 2024 report updates the index of eight indicators, Women, Business and Law 1.0, which focuses on the interaction of women with the law from the beginning, development, and end of their professional career; mobility, work, pay, marriage, parenthood, entrepreneurship, property, and pension.
Women, Business and Law 2.0 establishes, according to the WB, a new benchmark for measuring the economic inclusion environment of women through three pillars: the legal framework, which measures laws; the support framework, which measures public policy mechanisms to implement these laws; and expert opinion, reporting experts’ perception of the situation of women.
The WB report also indicates that Angola scored 79.4 on the previous eight indicators, and 62.5 on the current ten indicators; Guinea-Bissau 51.9 on the previous eight indicators, and 45 on the current ten indicators; Mozambique 82.5 on the previous eight indicators, and 65 on the current ten indicators, and São Tomé and Príncipe 83.1 on the previous eight indicators, and 65 on the current ten indicators.
Equatorial Guinea saw a drop in scores, reaching 58.1 on the previous eight indicators, and 50 on the current ten indicators.
None of the 190 economies analyzed achieved a score of 100 in terms of gender equality, unlike last year when only eight indicators were analyzed, the same report indicates.
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