{"id":249101,"date":"2023-06-22T20:43:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=249101"},"modified":"2023-06-23T11:37:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T06:07:32","slug":"india-climbs-eight-places-to-127-in-global-gender-index-wef-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-climbs-eight-places-to-127-in-global-gender-index-wef-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India climbs eight places to 127 in global gender index: WEF report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cIndia climbs eight places to 127 in global gender index: WEF report\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on 22ndJune 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released the Gender Gap Report, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Global Gender Gap Report, 2023?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Global Gender Gap Report has been released annually by the World Economic Forum (WEF) since 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n

It measures gender parity in 146 countries and across four areas: 1) economic participation and opportunity 2) educational attainment 3) health and survival and 4) political empowerment.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the key findings of the report?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Globally:<\/b> Iceland topped the ranking for the 14th consecutive year with 91.2% of its overall gender gap closed. It is also the only country with a score which is above 90%.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The overall gender gap closed by a mere 0.3% compared to the previous year. <\/span>The world would take 131 years to close the overall gender gap between men and women at the current rate of progress.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 In terms of overall gender parity, the Southern Asian region ranked second-lowest of the eight regions with 63.4%.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The last five countries on the list \u2013 Pakistan (57.5%), Iran (57.5%), Algeria (57.3%), Chad (57%), and Afghanistan (40.5%) \u2013 have scored below 60 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n

India: <\/b>I<\/span>ndia was ranked 127 among 146 countries in gender parity \u2014 up eight places from 2022. India was ranked 135 in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 India had closed 64.3% of the overall gender gap. The country had improved by 1.4 percentage points from then, marking a partial recovery towards its 2020 parity level.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 However, the report underlined that India had reached only 36.7% parity in economic participation and opportunity. The country had attained parity in enrolment across all levels of education.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 In India, while there had been an uptick in parity in wages and income, the share of women in senior positions and technical roles had dropped slightly since the last edition, the report said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 On political empowerment, India has registered 25.3% parity, with women making up 15.1% of MPs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Of the 117 countries with available data since 2017, 18 \u2014 including Bolivia (50.4%), India (44.4%) and France (42.3%) \u2014 have achieved women\u2019s representation of over 40% in local governance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia climbs eight places to 127 in global gender index: WEF report\u201d published in The Hindu on 22ndJune 2023 What is the News? The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released the Gender Gap Report, 2023. What is the Global Gender Gap Report, 2023? The Global Gender Gap… Continue reading India climbs eight places to 127 in global gender index: WEF report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-249101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":4,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698477601},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}