Gender inequality still rife

There has not been much introspection worldwide over the 2007 Global Gender Gap Report, released last week by the independent World Economic Forum, as far as a browse of the Internet reveals.

The authors of the report studied what they considered the "four critical areas of inequality between men and women", namely, economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment, and health and survival.

According to the authors, they looked closely at the gaps between men and women in each country and ranked a total of 128 countries according to gender equality or inequality instead of the level of economic development and advancement of women in those countries.