{"id":5612,"date":"2017-11-03T17:17:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T11:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/?p=5612"},"modified":"2017-12-04T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T09:49:55","slug":"bangladesh-tops-south-asia-in-gender-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/?p=5612","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh tops South Asia in gender equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh has again topped gender equality in South Asia, said the World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh jumped 25 notches to 47th place in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-gender-gap-report-2017\/dataexplorer\/#economy=BGD\">Global Gender Gap ranking 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh closed 72% of the gender gap, said the study published on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the report, Bangladesh scored 0.719 on the gender parity index and was ranked the highest among the South Asian nations while came second Maldives at 106.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India slipped 21 slots and ranked 108 while Sri Lanka ranked 109, Nepal 111, Bhutan 124 and Pakistan 143.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It ranked 7th among 155 countries in the political empowerment category but performed worst in economic participation and opportunity with in which it currently ranks 129th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh had ranked 72 last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through the Global Gender Gap Report, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress over time, with a specific focus on the relative gaps between women and men across four key areas: health, education, economy and politics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2017 Report covers 144 countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh has again topped gender equality in South Asia, said the World Economic Forum. Bangladesh jumped 25 notches to 47th place in the\u00a0Global Gender Gap ranking 2017. Bangladesh closed 72% of the gender gap, said the study published on Thursday. According to the report, Bangladesh scored 0.719 on the gender parity index and was ranked [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1691],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}