Gender parity score in Africa as of 2019, by dimension
As of 2019, the Gender Parity Score (GPS) revealed a high gap between men and women in Africa, both in society and at work. The average GPS in the continent stood at 0.58 points, a result that indicated high gender inequality. A GPS score equal to one indicates total parity between men and women - the nearer to one, the nearer to close the gender gap. Although both gender inequality at work and in society were considered high in Africa, the performance on society dimension was slightly better, at 0.63 points, meaning that women had 63 percent of the opportunities that men did. In the work dimension, the continent scored 0.51 points.