India ranks 135 out of 146 in Gender Gap Index
- Global Gender Gap Index, 2022: India ranks 135 out of 146 countries
- 2021: India ranked 140 out of 156 nations.
Key Highlights
- It will take 132 years to reach gender parity with gap reducing only by four years since 2021 and gender gap closed by 68.1%.
- This does not compensate for generational loss b/w 2020 and 2021
Indian performance
- India is behind
- Bangladesh (71)
- Nepal (96)
- Sri Lanka (110)
- Maldives (117) and
- Bhutan (126).
- Iran (143), Pakistan (145) and Afghanistan (146) performed worse than India in South Asia.
- India is the worst performer in the world in “health and survival” sub-index.
- India’s score of 0.629 was its seventh-highest score in past 16 years.
- India has recovered since 2021 in economic participation and opportunity.
- Labour force participation shrunk for both men and women.
About the Index
- Released by: World Economic Forum
- Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks gender parity across four key dimensions
- Economic participation and opportunity
- Educational attainment
- Health and survival, and
- Political empowerment.
- It measures scores on 0-to-100 scale.
- It can be interpreted as percentage of gender gap that has been closed.
Prelims take away
- Global Gender Gap report
- World Economic Forum