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15/07/22 14:07 PM IST

Global Gender Gap 2022

In News 
  • India has ranked low – at 135th place out of 146 countries – in terms of gender parity, on the annual Gender Gap Report 2022 of the World Economic Forum (WEF) released in Geneva recently. 
Major Findings 
  • The Global Gender Report, 2022, says it will now take 132 years to reach gender parity, with the gap reducing only by four years since 2021 and the gender gap closed by 68. 1%.
  • India ranks poorly among its neighbours and is behind Bangladesh (71), Nepal (96), Sri Lanka (110), Maldives (117) and Bhutan (126). Only the performance of Iran (143), Pakistan (145) and Afghanistan(146) was worse than India in South Asia. In 2021, India ranked 140 out of 156 nations.
India's Performance 
  • It measures scores on a 0 to 100 scale, which can be interpreted as the distance covered towards parity or the percentage of the gender gap that has been closed.
  • India ranks 146 in health and survival, 143 in economic participation and opportunity, 107 in educational attainment and 48 in political empowerment.
  • The report noted that India’s score of 0.629 was its seventh highest score in the past 16 years.
  • India also “recovered”ground since 2021 in economic participation and opportunity, though the report goes on to add that the labour force participation shrunk for both men (by 9.5 percentage points) and women (3 percentage points).
Source- Indian Express 

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