Question

A low GII value indicates low inequality between women and men, and vice-versa. What is the values and the world ranks of GII for the United States, and compare them to the value and ranking of Norway. Which factors do you think explain the differences between both countries in terms of the values and the rankings of their respective GII?

Answer 1

A low GII value indicates low Inequality between women and men,Vice versa.

Gender Inequality remains a major problem to the whole world today.Gender INequality index is an Inequality index measure the gender Inequality in following threee aspects

• REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH(Meternal mortality Ratio,Adolescent Birth rates)
• EMPOWERMENT (Proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by the females)
• ECONOMIC STATUS(Labor market particiaption of females and males aged 25 with least secondary education.

It takes the rank and position of 162 countries insights the gender gap of major areas of Human devolopment.

According to latest Human Devolopment Report US constitutes 42 nd position in terms of Gender Inequality index and holds 15 th position in HUMAN DEVOLOPMENT INDEX.

VALUE OF GII of US is 0.182

According to the GII Indices of US

Meternal Mortality Rate=14

Adult birthrate=19.9

Share of seats in parliament =23.6

Population with atelast secondary education=

Male:95.5 . Female :95.7

Labor force participation rate=

Male :68.2 . Female:56.1

Norway holds first position in Human Devolopment index but according to the GII it holds 5th position with a value of 0.044

The gap between men and women are very low to Norway than US...

Labor force participation and in case of secondary education the value is minimal between the men and women compared to US.

US needs to improve in case of labor force participation and education and proportion of female participation in parliament.