Source: Economist Intelligence Unit
Women's economic opportunity: A new global index and ranking, is an Economist Intelligence Unit publication. It presents the results of a global benchmarking model built and scored by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Women's political and economic empowerment has been a defining feature of the last century. Millions of women in the early 1900s rejected convention andn ignorance to fight for the right to vote. Thirty years later the daughters and granddaughters of those suffragettes, defying stereotypes.The next generation of women secured their rights in law, then entered the workforce in droves, fuelling economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s. At the start of the 21st century women ar enot just enfranchised and fully engaged in the workplace, but leading glov=bal corporations and countries of every size. Germany's Angela Merkel, Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and Pepsico's Indra Nooyi are there among many.

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