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Compared to the rest of South Asian countries, Sri Lanka women are very well off, enjoying high life expectancy (80 years), nearly universal literacy, and access to economic opportunities, which are nearly unmatched in the rest of the subcontinent.
Sri Lanka. Asia. Globally, some progress on women’s rights has been achieved. In Sri Lanka, 9.8% of women aged 20–24 years old who were married or in a union before age 18. The adolescent birth rate is 16.5 per 1,000 women aged 15–19 as of 2015, down from 17.9 per 1,000 in 2014.
UN Women has been working in Sri Lanka since 2014, marking a decade of service dedicated to advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in the country. In our collective efforts to uphold women’s rights, we work collaboratively with the Government of Sri Lanka and other partners to develop national policies, conduct research and ...
Sri Lanka ranks 92nd out of 191 countries on the United Nations Development Programme’s 2021 Gender Inequality Index1 and 110th out of 146 countries on the World Economic Forum’s 2022 Global Gender Gap Index.2 Its health system has been recognized internationally as a highly successful low-cost model that has led to positive national health outc...
Vulnerable employment among women is 39.3% and among men is 39.8% in Sri Lanka for 2022. The rate of vulnerable employment is lower for men and women in Sri Lanka compared to the average rate in South Asia.
90%, and that education has long been prioritized for males and females, women in Sri Lanka, especially the rural women, are treated as second-class citizens in the socio-economic and political spheres. In this context, the prime objective of this paper is to address the socio-economic,
17 cze 2021 · Its impact on women and girls has been severe and disproportionate and it is already beginning to reverse decades of progress on gender equality.In Sri Lanka, women make up over 50 per cent of the population. Yet only 12 out of 225 legislators in the Parliament are women.
