Global Gender Gap Index
The gender gap is the difference between women and men as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or attitudes.
Global Gender Gap Index was published by World Economic Forum (WEF).
It compares nations' advancements toward gender parity across four key dimensions with submetrics.
Economic Opportunity and Participation
Academic Achievement
Safety and Well-being
Democratic Empowerment
The GGG index assigns scores between 0 and 1 to each of the four sub-indices as well as the overall index, where 1 indicates full gender parity and 0 indicates total imparity.
Since its inception in 2006, it has been the longest-running index that tracks advancements in bridging these gaps over time.
Goals: To act as a compass for measuring improvement in the relative gaps between men and women in terms of health, education, the economy, and politics.
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The stakeholders in each nation are able to establish priorities that are appropriate in each unique economic, political, and cultural context thanks to this annual yardstick.
India’s rank
India was ranked 127 among 146 countries in gender parity — up eight places from last year’s place — in the Gender Gap Report, 2023.
The country had improved by 1.4 percentage points from 2022.
India had closed 64.3% of the overall gender gap.
However, it underlined that India had reached only 36.7% parity in economic participation and opportunity.
The country had attained parity in enrolment across all levels of education.
In India, while there had been an uptick in parity in wages and income, the share of women in senior positions and technical roles had dropped slightly since the last edition.
On political empowerment, India has registered 25.3% parity, with women making up 15.1% of MPs.
Of the 117 countries with available data since 2017, 18 — including Bolivia (50.4%), India (44.4%) and France (42.3%) — have achieved women’s representation of over 40% in local governance.
For India, the 1.9 percentage point improvement in sex ratio at birth had driven up parity after more than a decade.
Compared with top scoring countries that register a 94.4% gender parity at birth, the indicator stands at 92.7% for India.
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