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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).

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• 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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