The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released its annual global gender gap report on Tuesday and they have revealed that Pakistan is the second worst country regarding gender equality.

The report has surveyed a total of 142 countries including areas concerning equal economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment and health and survival.

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Equal economic participation and opportunity focused on the salary and highly-skilled employment regarding men and women. Educational attainment focused on both genders' access not only to basic but higher levels of education. As for political empowerment, WEF has taken into consideration the representation of both genders in decision-making bodies. And for health and survival, they looked at the life expectancy and gender ration of the people living in all 142 countries.

Pakistan has ranked 141^st in equal economic participation and opportunity, 132^nd in educational empowerment, 119^th in health and survival and landed 85^th in political empowerment.

WEF has started with the annual report back in 2006 and Pakistan first ranked 112^th when it came to women being able to participate in economics. This is the third year that Pakistan has held its position being the second worst country regarding gender equality.

Pakistan's neighboring country, India, has also fell from its 101^st rank to 114 this year.

Iceland is the number one on the 2014 list of WEF as it was found out it has the most equitable sharing of resources for both males and females. Finland has ranked second, Norway nabbed the third spot and Sweden and Denmark rounds up the top five spots respectively. Included in the top ten list are Nicaragua, Rwanda, Ireland, Philippines and Belgium respectively.

As for the United States, it has climbed three spots and has landed on the 20^th spot as it has narrowed the wage gap between men and women both in in parliamentary and ministerial level positions.

WEF pressed that the gender gap in the workplaces all over the world hardly narrowed for the past nine years they have been making the annual list. Although women are rapidly closing the gender gap when it comes to health and education, inequality at work places is still rampant and WEF noted this is expected to be erased not until 2095.

"Based on this trajectory, with all else remaining equal, it will take 81 years for the world to close this gap completely," the WEF added.

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