“More people are food insecure, pushed into extreme poverty, and the number of displaced people continues to rise. In many cases, women and girls have been the hardest hit [by the pandemic].”
from Georgetown University provides a simple ranking and comprehensive picture of women’s inclusion, access to justice and security in 170 countries.The WPS Index tracks 11 indicators—ranging from women’s employment to intimate partner violence to sexist attitudes—from publicly available data sources, like the World Bank, U.N. Women and Gallup. All of these metrics can be traced to goals and indicators that countries have agreed to in context of the sustainable development goals.
However, the global rate of progress for women has slowed by more than half. The global average rose about seven percent between 2017 and 2019 but by only about three percent between 2019 and 2021. And this slowdown occurred even without full accounting of the impacts of the pandemic—for example we know that rates of intimate partner violence have worsened, but comprehensive new data on this is lacking.
Sub-Saharan Africa saw the largest regional jump, from 64 to 81 percent; in Ethiopia, women’s cell phone use more than doubled, from 43 to 98 percent. Since 2017, women’s representation in parliament has also increased globally, from 20 to 26 percent—most markedly in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia and in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a rise in the latter region from 24 to 33 percent.
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