Issues of gender equality and feminism has been floating around the airwaves for a while now since Duncan Williams went and shot off his mouth in his pulpit, and against that backdrop the report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the gender gap engenders little optimism for females.

Launched in Geneva last week, the report took into account nine years of data collected in 142 countries worldwide since the last report in 2006, measuring the gender disparity in four key areas: economic participation and opportunity, education, political participation, and health and survival.

And the report places the global gender gap in the workplace (economic participation and opportunity), at 60% worldwide, up 4% from the 2006 figure of 56%. Taking into account the progression over nine years and their projections; the global gender gap is set to be totally closed by 2095 if all things remain equal.

Ghana ranked 101 out of the 142 countries, down from 76 on last year’s Gender Gap Index. Ghana performed poorly in three out of the four sectors, deteriorating in economic participation, health, and economic empowerment. It was only in educational attainment that Ghana improved from 123 to 117 worldwide.

Globally, the sector with the most equality is health and survival (96%), educational attainment follows at 94%: economic participation as noted earlier stands at 60%, whilst the world is worst at enabling women in politics, the figure for political empowerment standing at a measly 21%.

Rwanda was the best African nation worldwide, ranked at 7th. The United States and the United Kingdom finished at 20th and 26th respectively. The most gender neutral nations worldwide are the five Nordic countries, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark making up the top five.

The full report can be read here