How has India fared in the latest Global Gender Index report by the WEF
Exploring India's performance in the latest Global Gender Index rankings and understanding the implications.
- The country’s overall gender gap score improved marginally, from 66.5% in 2018 to 68.5% in 2019, but it slipped 4 places in the overall rankings.
- India ranks particularly low in the economic participation and opportunity sub-index at 149th place, due to poor scores on wage equality, women’s share in top paying jobs, and labour force participation rate.
- India fares slightly better in the political empowerment sub-index at 18th place, albeit with room for improvement in terms of women’s representation in Parliament and ministerial positions.
- The country continues to perform well in education and health and survival sub-indices, ranked at 112th and 150th place, respectively.
- The low overall ranking indicates the need for concerted efforts to close the gender gap across sectors and urgent steps to implement policies aimed at gender parity in India.
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