National Geographic, in conjunction with the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and the Peace Research Institute Oslo, announced the 2019-2020 Women, Peace, and Security Index, which ranked 167 countries from best to worst places to be a woman. Norway came first.
The three main factors for the index were inclusion of women in society, security, and justice.
The factors include subcategories such as if women have right to use mobile phones, feels safe walking at the house at night, or if they are under male authority that prevent them from working.
Libya came 158 worldwide and 19 in the Arab world. Libya came in good ranking for allowing women to use mobile phones, financial power, physical violence by intimate partners and son bias.
While the Index placed Libya in bad rankings for women representation in government and parliament, recruitment, education and systematic violence as well as deaths by armed violence.
The UAE came first in the Arab world and 44 worldwide, while Qatar came second and 72 worldwide, Bahrain third and 83 worldwide and Kuwait fourth and 96 worldwide.
The researchers of the data said this Index celebrates 25 years since the fourth UN women affairs conference that was held in Beijing.
A pattern of unevenness categorizes pretty much all countries,” says Jeni Klugman, managing director of the Georgetown Institute and lead author of the index.
“For example, Afghanistan does relatively well in terms of women’s political participation. And Yemen, the lowest on the list, has relatively low levels of intimate partner violence and even son bias.” Klugman added.
