China ranks 107th and has achieved 67.8%
gender parity. Compared to the previous edition,
this represents an 0.4 percentage-point decline in
score and a decline of five positions in rank. China
is at 93.5% parity on Educational Attainment,
with full parity on tertiary education. On Economic
Participation and Opportunity, China has closed
72.7% of the gender gap and attains 81.5%
parity in labour-force participation rate. It also
secures 11.4% parity on Political Empowerment,
with 4.2% women ministers and 24.9% women
parliamentarians. China continues to have one of
the lowest sex ratios at birth (89%), affecting parity
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levels on the Health and Survival subindex (93.7%,
145th).
I raise this not to dunk on China but because China and India represent such extremely large populations that if a real drive were to occur in either of them it would overwhelmingly affect this "131 years until parity" figure.
China in the report:
I raise this not to dunk on China but because China and India represent such extremely large populations that if a real drive were to occur in either of them it would overwhelmingly affect this "131 years until parity" figure.