Asia-Pacific women better educated stated on Abs-Cbn report according to LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in the Asia Pacific region fall behind men in securing leadership roles in business and politics despite being better educated, an annual gender equality index revealed on Friday.
- Female university students outnumber male students in 10 of the 16 countries surveyed, including China, Thailand and Sri Lanka.
- Women are also fast becoming as active in the workplace as men in most countries in the region, based to the MasterCard Worldwide Index of Women's Advancement.
- New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines and Singapore as the best countries for women
- "Companies with more women in leadership outperform those who do not, so the male dominance of leadership roles should be concerning," said Georgette Tan, MasterCard spokeswoman for the Asia-Pacific region.
- New Zealand and the Philippines are the only two countries with more than 50 female business and government leaders and business owners for every 100 of their male counterparts.
- Thai women have made the most significant progress in obtaining business leadership roles since the index began in 2007, while the ratio of female-to-male politicians in the Philippines has doubled in the last nine years.
- Although women in most countries in the Asia-Pacific region are better-educated than men, female students in India, South Korea and Bangladesh have fewer opportunities when it comes to secondary and university education, the index showed.
- The survey was conducted in Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
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