In the latest Mo Ibrahim Index on African governance (see box, next page), South Africa is ranked fourth out of 53 African countries for its record on women's rights. In the World Economic Forum's "gender gap index" it comes an impressive sixth out of 134 countries in the world. In the undp's "gender empowerment measure" it also does well, being placed 26th out of 182 countries. But in the UN'S "gender-related development index" it is ranked a poor129th, again out of 182. Such a wide discrepancy is not simply because the various bodies measure different things, but also because the picture of women in South Africa is so mixed.
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