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Essay On Gender Equality In China

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Is China ahead of Japan when it comes to gender equality?
Comparative analysis of China being ahead of Japan on gender equality issues.
The degree of gender equality is assessed differently by various indexes that measure gender equality worldwide. I therefore begin by discussing three indexes of global gender equality that yield different results concerning the progress of gender equality in Japan and China.

UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index (GII)
The Gender Inequality Index (GII) examines gender inequality in the three broad areas:
• reproductive health,
• empowerment,
• labor market participation
Specific categories are:
• maternal mortality ratio,
• adolescent fertility rate,
• share of seats in parliament,
• population with at least secondary education (female and male),
• …show more content…

For the year 2014, Japan’s Gender Gap Index received a 0.658 rating. Japan scored a 1.00, or complete equality, in the areas of literacy, enrollment in primary and secondary education as well as in healthy life expectancy. China achieved a complete equality score in such categories as “professional and technical workers” and “enrollment in tertiary education”.

The lowest rated sub-indexes for Japan were those related to political empowerment: in terms of women in parliament, the country was rated 126th of the 142 countries or the bottom of the Group of 20 advanced countries and regions and received the score of 0.09. China was ranked 60th in the same category.

China which was rated higher in terms of gender equality in general, had greater economic participation of women ratio, and in particular achieved absolute equality in the sphere of professional and technical workers (China scored 1.0 when Japan scored 0.87).
China also demonstrated higher political empowerment of women, especially with regard to women in parliament (China scored 0.31, Japan scored

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