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Johannesburg - South Africa slipped two places in the Global Gender Gap Index ranking in 2008, according to the Global Gender
Gap Index report released by the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.
This year South Africa was ranked 22nd down from 20th in 2007.
Other African countries in the top twenty include Lesotho, ranked 16th, and Mozambique, ranked 18th.
No African country was ranked among the top ten countries.
Norway was ranked tops in the survey,followed by Finland and Sweden.
Through the Global Gender Gap Reports, for the past three years the World Economic Forum has been providing a framework for quantifying the magnitude of gender based disparities, tracking their progress over time and designing effective measures reducing them.
The Global Gender Gap Index was introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006 as a framework for capturing the magnitude and scope of these disparities and tracking their progress.
The Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions and income groups, and over time.
- I-Net Bridge