The World Economic Forum's annual gender equality report may have come as quite a shock to many Japanese.
Despite being the third-largest economy in the world, Japan was ranked a disappointing 98th out of the 135 countries covered by the WEF's Global Gender Gap Report 2011 that came out in November.
The gender equality index, which the forum started in 2006, evaluates each country by giving scores for women's economic participation and opportunity, education attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment and ranks the countries accordingly.
In Asia, the Philippines scored an impressive eighth in the global ranking, with women's economic participation and political empowerment scoring higher than other nations in the region, including Japan. (Japan Times)
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