KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Malaysia gender gap index (MGGI) scored 0.694, or 69.4 percent in 2022, as compared to 0.692 (69.2 percent) in 2021, official data showed, yesterday.
MGGI identifies the gap between women and men across four sub-indices, encompassing economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment.
The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), said in a statement that, achievement of Malaysian women has surpassed men in the educational attainment sub-index with a score of 1.067.
The Malaysian women health and survival sub-index recorded a score of 0.961 in 2022, while the economic participation and opportunity sub-index recorded a score of 0.644.
However, labour force participation rate (LFPR) for women in Malaysia was still low at 55.8 percent in 2022, as compared to other Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam (75.2 percent) and Singapore (73.2 percent).
The Malaysian women political empowerment sub-index also recorded the lowest score, which is 10.2 percent (score 0.102), indicating the potential for increased representation and empowerment of women in the political sphere.
“Based on the MGGI 2022 score (0.694), we were ranked 93rd from 146 countries in the world. Simultaneously, within East Asia and the Pacific nations, Malaysia stood at the 11th position in 2022,” DOSM said.
A score with a value of 1 (100 percent) indicates the equality of women and men has been achieved.– NNN-BERNAMA
