disparities between women and men in sa however remain high for every girls enrolled in secondary education there are enrolled boys interestingly gender gaps in labour force participation persist in every region but to different extents male labour force participation is times higher than the female counterpart in eap compared to in mena this persistence in gender gaps attests to the global nature of gender inequality irrespective of levels of income or development eliminating discrimination requires national commitments and priorities and cannot just result from gdp and economic growth these values only include the countries in our sample that are ranked in the edition of the sigi and belong to the gallup word poll sample