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Najib and Shahrizat should be ashamed of their inefficiency in closing the gender gap and women empowerment. Countries can be competitive only if they develop, attract and retain the best talent, both male and female. BN administration has failed to understand that gender equality matters to Malaysia\u2019s development because the \u201cabsent women\u201d represent a skills and brain drain from the Malaysian workforce. So how could the women in Malaysia expect a better tomorrow if BN continues to rule?<\/p>\n[1] Download the report: http:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2013.pdf<\/p>\n[2] In 2006, 14% of the global political empowerment gap had been closed; in 2013, 21% of\u2028this gap has been closed. In 2006, 56% of the economic participation gap had been closed; in 2013, 60% of\u2028this gap has been closed. In 2006, almost 92% of the educational attainment gap had been closed; in 2013,\u202893% of this gap has been closed. On health and survival, however, there has been a small deterioration between 2006 and 2013, from 97% to 96%.<\/p>\n[3] One country has shown zero progress while fourteen countries have shown negative progress over the last eight years. (page 40 of the Report)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Teo Nie Ching, Member of Parliament for Kulai Last year, Malaysia was ranked 100th among 135 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index with the score of 0.6539. However, in the latest Global Gender Gap Report 2013 published by the World Economic Forum[1], Malaysia demonstrates a change of score of -0.0021 and slips […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[313,147,314],"class_list":["post-6406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","tag-gender-gap","tag-teo-nie-ching","tag-women-empowerment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6414,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions\/6414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Last year, Malaysia was ranked 100th among 135 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index with the score of 0.6539. However, in the latest Global Gender Gap Report 2013 published by the World Economic Forum[1], Malaysia demonstrates a change of score of -0.0021 and slips 2 places to 102nd among 136 countries.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TNC2.png\" "\\"TNC#2\\"")
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