Costa Rica continues to Trail Blaze in Gender Equality
Latin America is a region were gender equality seems to be a distant goal to achieve. From the early childhood girls are thought that men are more equal. And to be sure institutions are built to secure this perception. But the gender gap is closing at a slow but sure pace. According to a recent World Economic Forum study on the status of gender equality throughout the world Costa Rica moved up in the, Gender Gap WEF Index. Costa Rica ranks 32 out of 144 countries in the WEF report, which measures the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress over time. The organization supports its evaluation of a series of indicators in four areas: economic participation, educational attainment, political empowerment, and health and survival. Scores for each country range from 0.00, representing no parity, to 1.00, representing an egalitarian relationship between genders. Costa Rica obtained a 0.73 valuation. The feat flies on the wings of two factors: political empowerment an...