The South Korean government has updated the country's gender equality index.<br />Where a hundred points would be perfect equality,... the latest figure, for 2017, is 71.5 -- a slight increase from the year before of 8 tenths of a point.<br /> Equality is indexed for a range of areas, including economic activity, education, welfare, health and safety... with the number representing the status of women as compared to men.<br />The area with the most severe inequality, the ministry says... is in decision-making.<br />There South Korea scored just 29.3 points,... mainly because of a lack of women on government committees and among high-ranking civil servants -- and the same in corporate management.<br />The most equal area was healthcare, where the index was at 97-point-3. <br />
