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24/06/23 07:37 AM IST

World Gendre Gap Report

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  • India has ranked at 127 out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity — an improvement of eight places from last year — according to the World Economic Forum’s annual Gender Gap Report, 2023.
Performance of India
  • The country has attained parity in enrolment across all levels of education.
  • India has closed 64.3 per cent of the overall gender gap, the report said. However, it underlined that India has reached only 36.7 per cent parity on economic participation and opportunity.
  • The index ranked India’s neighbours Pakistan at 142, Bangladesh at 59, China at 107, Nepal at 116, Sri Lanka at 115 and Bhutan at 103.
  • In India, while there has been uptick in parity in wages and income, the share of women in senior positions and technical roles have dropped slightly since the last edition.
  • On political empowerment, India has registered 25.3 per cent parity, with women representing 15.1 per cent of parliamentarians — the highest for the country since the inaugural report in 2006.
  • Out of the 117 countries with available data since 2017, 18 countries — including Bolivia (50.4 per cent), India (44.4 per cent) and France (42.3 per cent) — have achieved women’s representation of over 40 per cent in local governance.
  • For India, the 1.9 percentage point improvement in sex ratio at birth has driven up parity after more than a decade of slow progress.
Global Findings
  • The score in South Asia has risen by 1.1 percentage points since the last edition on the basis of the constant sample of countries covered since 2006.
  • The improvement is partially attributable to the rise in scores of populous countries such as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
  • In terms of the share of women in ministerial positions, 75 countries have 20 per cent or fewer female ministers.
  • Populous countries such as India, Turkey and China have less than seven per cent of women ministers while those like Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon have none.
  • For the 146 countries covered in the 2023 index, the Health and Survival gender gap has closed by 96 per cent, the Educational Attainment gap by 95.2 per cent, Economic Participation and Opportunity gap by 60.1 per cent, and the Political Empowerment gap by 22.1 per cent.
  • Parity has advanced by only 4.1 percentage points since the first edition of the report in 2006, with the overall rate of change slowing significantly.
About WEF
  • The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss nonprofit foundation established in 1971, based in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Recognized by the Swiss authorities as the international institution for public-private cooperation.
  • Mission- Committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas.
  • Founder and Executive Chairman: Klaus Schwab.
  • Some major reports published by WEF are-
  • Energy Transition Index.
  • Global Competitiveness Report.
  • Global IT Report
  • WEF along with INSEAD, and Cornell University publishes this report.
  • Global Gender Gap Report.
Source- Indian Express

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