Professor Ricardo Hausmann,Harvard University
Professor Laura D. Tyson, London Business School
Saadia Zahidi,World Economic Forum
published by the World Economic Forum.
The Gender Gap Index 2006 is the result of
collaboration with faculty at Harvard University
and London Business School.
Special thanks to the Global Competitiveness
Programme team at the World Economic
Forum, in particular, Laura Altinger, Associate
Principal, and Augusto Lopez-Claros, Former
Director and Chief Economist, for their very
valuable contributions and comments.
Thank you to Hope Steele for her superb editing
work and Ha Nguyen for her excellent interior
graphic design and layout.
We are very grateful to Kamal Kamaoui and the World Economic Forum\u2019s Publications team for their invaluable collaboration on the production of this Report.
The termscountryand nationas used in this
report do not in all cases refer to a territorial
entity that is a state as understood by
international law and practice. The term covers
well-defined, geographically self-contained
economic areas that may not be states but
for which statistical data are maintained on a
separate and independent basis.
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Three underlying concepts........................................................5 The four pillars...........................................................................5 Steps in constructing the Index.................................................7
Global rankings...........................................................................9 Global trends and regional performance..................................12 The link with the economic performance of countries............17
Global Gender Gap Report 2006
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