Table 1: Women's Inclusion, Justice and Security Index (WIJSI) and Its Components
Table 1: Women's Inclusion, Justice and Security Index (WIJSI) and Its Components
INCLUSION
WIJSI
Index Mean years Financial
value Rank of schooling inclusion
Other countries
Bahamas .. 11.9 ..
Barbados .. .. ..
Brunei Darussalam .. .. ..
Cabo Verde .. 6.1 ..
Cuba .. 11.4 ..
Dem. People's Republic of Korea .. ..
Djibouti .. .. 8.8
Equatorial Guinea .. .. ..
Eritrea .. .. ..
Fiji .. 9.3 ..
Gambia .. .. ..
Guinea-Bissau .. .. ..
Guyana .. 7.4 ..
Kosovo .. .. 36.3
Libya .. .. ..
Oman .. 9.6 63.5
Papua New Guinea .. .. ..
Solomon Islands .. .. ..
South Sudan .. .. ..
Taiwan .. .. 90.5
Timor-Leste .. .. ..
REGIONS
Central and Eastern Europe and Central 0.721 9.1 58.9
Developed Regions 0.819 9.9 95.5
East Asia and the Pacific 0.723 7.1 65.5
Latin America and the Caribbean 0.685 7.4 47.5
Middle East and North Africa 0.574 5.4 23.1
South Asia 0.635 4.4 39.2
Sub-Saharan Africa 0.622 2.9 23.3
Fragile States 0.563 5.1 9.6
Global 0.662 6.8 55.5
NOTES
1. For countries with bicameral legislative systems, the share of seats is calculated based on both houses.
2. Data are the most recent available in the period specified
3. Data are annual average for the period specified.
4. Sweden's estimate is used.
5. Denmark's estimate is used.
6 United State of America's estimate is used.
7.Australia's estimate is used.
8. Republic of South Korea's estimates is used.
9. Panama's estimate is used.
10. South Africa's estimate is used.
11. Pakistan's estimate is used.
12. Zimbabwe's estimate is used.
13. Iraq estimate is used.
14. Regional average.
15. For purposes of calculated the index, the value is capped at 50.
16. The figures on the distribution of seats do not include the 36 special rotating delegates appointed on an ad hoc basis, a
therefore calculated on the basis of the 54 permanent seats.
17. Cwikel et al. (2003)
18. Tashkandi and Rasheed (2009)
19. Olayanju et al. (2013)
20. Mohammad Hosseini et al. (2010)
DEFINITIONS
Women's Inclusion, Justice and Security Index (WIJSI): A composite index measuring women's achievement in inlusion, ju
Mean Years of Schooling: Average number of years of education received by Females ages 25 and older, converted from
using official durations of each level.
Financial inclusion: The percentage of females, aged 15 and older, who reported having an account alone or jointly owne
financial institution or personally using a mobile money service.
Employment: The proportion of a country's female working population aged 25 years and older that is employed.
Cellphone: The percentage of females aged 15 years and older responding 'Yes" to Gallup World Poll question "“Do you ha
use to make and receive personal calls?”
Parliament: The percentage of seats held by women in lower and upper houses of national parliaments.
Legal discrimination: The total score obtained by a country on a measure of laws and regulations that affect women’s abil
between men and women.
Sex ratio at birth: Number of male births per female births.
Unacceptable for women to work: Percentage of males aged 15 years and older who responded 'unacceptable" to the qu
women in your family having paid jobs outside their home?”
Community safety: Percentage of females aged 15 years and older who responded "Yes" to Gallup World Poll question “D
at night in the city or area where you live?”
Life time intimate partner violence: The percentage of women who experienced physical and/or sexual violence committe
Organized violence : Total number of battle deaths from state-based, non-state, one-sided conflicts expressed per 100,00
2010-2015.
Unacceptable
Cellphone Parliamentary Legal for women to
Employment use seats 1 discrimination Son bias work
male to
% females % females % held by out of total score female ratio % males aged
aged 25+ aged 15+ women of 84 at birth 15+
n both houses.
l parliaments.
lations that affect women’s ability and/or differentiate
to Gallup World Poll question “Do you feel safe walking alone
uary, 2017.
men and men” Report.
Lifetime
Intimate Organized
Community Partner violence
Safety Violence GDP per
capita
PPP$ rank
% females % per 100,000 minus
aged 15+ females people WIJSI rank
.. .. 0.000
.. 30.00 0.000
.. .. 0.000
.. 12.60 0.000
46.18 .. 0.000
.. .. 0.000
.. 0.000
.. 56.90 0.000
.. .. 0.000
.. 64.00 0.000
.. 20.10 0.000
.. .. 0.000
38.9 .. 0.000
63.2 .. ..
.. 8.093
.. .. 0.000
.. 67.50 0.266
.. 63.00 0.000
41.2 .. 14.424
64.1 ..
34.60 0.000