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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India falls 28 spots on 2021 Global Gender Gap index to 140th rank

India falls 28 spots on 2021 Global Gender Gap index to 140th rank

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published Published on Mar 31, 2021   modified Modified on Apr 1, 2021

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India was the third-worst performer in South Asia, after Afghanistan and Pakistan. Bangladesh topped the list in the region.

India has fallen 28 spots to rank 140th among 156 countries on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap index. In 2020, India had ranked 112th among 153 countries on the index.

“The index benchmarks the evolution of gender-based gaps among four key dimensions – Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment – and tracks progress towards closing these gaps over time,” the World Economic Forum said in its Global Gender Gap Report 2021, which was released on Tuesday.

The report said that India had so far closed 62.5% of its gender gap. It noted that most of the decline was seen on the Political Empowerment sub-index, where India went back 13.5 percentage points. “The main change that took place this year is the significant decline in the share of women among ministers, which halved, from 23.1% in 2019 to 9.1% in 2021,” the report added. “In addition, the share of women in parliament remains stagnant at 14.4% and the share of the last 50 years in which a woman has been head of state is 15.5%.”

The Global Gender Gap Report added that reduction in women’s labour force participation rate was another reason for the drop in India’s rank. “In addition, the share of women in professional and technical roles declined further to 29.2%,” the report said. “The share of women in senior and managerial positions also remains low: only 14.6% of these positions are held by women and there are only 8.9% of firms with female top managers.”

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