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GENDER GAP INDEX

14th July, 2022

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  • India ranked 135 among 146 countries in the recently released Global Gender Gap Index 2022.
    • In 2021, India ranked 140 out of 156 nations.
  • Iceland ranked at the top and it is the only country to have closed more than 90% of its Gender gap.
  • Global Gender Gap Index was released by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

 

Details

  • In the sub-index of “health and survival”, India has ranked (146th) as the worst performer in the world.
  • According to the report, India will take more than 132 years to reach gender equality.
  • India has ranked poorly among its neighbours and it is behind:
    • Bangladesh (71)
    • Nepal (96)
    • Sri Lanka (110)
    • Maldives (117)
    • Bhutan (126).
  • In South Asia, only the performance of Iran (143), Pakistan (145) and Afghanistan (146) was worse than India.
  • India’s scored 0.629 (out of 1), and this was the 7th-highest score in the past 16 years.
  • The report mentioned that the labour force participation shrunk for both men (by 9.5%) and women (3%).

 

Global Gender Gap Index

  • It is released by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
  • The Global Gender Gap Index measure gender equality across 4 key dimensions:
    • Economic Participation and Opportunity.
    • Educational Attainment.
    • Health and Survival.
    • Political Empowerment.
  • It measures scores on a 0-to-100 scale, and the score can be interpreted as the distance covered towards achieving gender equality.

 

Important Reports released by World Economic Forum

  • Travel and Tourism Competitive Report.
  • Global Competitiveness Report.
  • Global Gender Gap Report.
  • Global Risks Report.
  • Global Social Mobility Index.
  • Energy Transition Index

 

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