(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Oman is the best country in GCC and second overall for women to live in, a survey conducted among 22 member states of the Arab League including suspended member Syria has revealed.
The next best GCC country for women to live in was Kuwait followed by Qatar, UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
According to the survey, Comoros is the best country for women to live in the entire Arab League while Egypt was the worst.
The overall ranking was based on six categories - women in politics, society, economy, family, their reproductive rights and violence against them.
Titled, ‘Women's Rights in the Arab World', the survey was conducted by Thomson Reuters Foundation.
During the survey, which was carried out in August and September, 336 gender experts spoke on the issue in different categories.
To express their views on any issue, experts answered by selecting from among options such as strongly agree, agree, neither agree nor disagree, disagree and strongly disagree.
Answers were converted into scores and higher the score, the worst the country was.
In the overall survey, the sultanate was ranked third on the issue of ‘Women in Politics', second on ‘Women in the Economy', fifth in ‘Women in Society' and ‘Reproductive rights for Women' categories, tenth in ‘Violence against Women' and ranked 12 in ‘Women in the Family'.
Arab League
Country Ranking
Comoros 1
Oman 2
Kuwait 3
Jordan 4
Qatar 5
Tunisia 6
Algeria 7
Morocco 8
Libya 9
UAE 10
Mauritania 11
Bahrain 12
Djibouti 13
Somalia 14
Palestinian territories 15
Lebanon 16
Sudan 17
Yemen 18
Syria 19
Saudi Arabia 20
Iraq 21
Egypt 22&nbs
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