According to the Gender Inequality Index (GII) 2020, Chad was the least gender equal country in Africa and third in the world. In fact, most of the least gender equal countries worldwide were located in the continent. The Gender Inequality Index measures inequalities between women and men in three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment, and the labor market. The higher the GII value the more disparities between females and males, and vice versa.
The GII is an inequality index. It measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development—reproductive health, measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates; empowerment, measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and proportion of adult females and males aged 25 years and older with at least some secondary education; and economic status, expressed as labour market participation and measured by labour force participation rate of female and male populations aged 15 years and older
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