New Zealand Leads with the Highest Index Score MasterCard Worldwide today released the 2007 results of its MasterIndexTM of Women’s Advancement, showing that while women continue to steadily advance in labor force participation and higher education, they are less bullish in relation to holding managerial positions as compared to men. The region as a whole showed that women's socio-economic advancement dropped slightly from a score of 76.11 in 2006 to 72.09 in 2007. While composite scores in the