Jordan ranks sixth in Arab world on ‘Women’s Power Index’
By Rayya Al Muheisen - Jul 12,2021 - Last updated at Jul 12,2021
AMMAN Jordan ranks sixth in the Arab world and 129 globally on the Women’s Power Index, an index created by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Jordan scored 18 out of 100 in political parity women’s political participation in the report CFR published in March 2021.
The report ranks 193 countries’ progress towards gender parity in political participation and decision making and visualises the gender gap in political representation, according to the CFR.
Only 9 per cent of women in Jordan participate in the Cabinet the percentage of ministerial positions held by women and 12 per cent participate in the national legislature percentage of seats held by women in parliament and 32 per cent participate in the local legislature the percentage of seats held by women in local government bodies.
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