{"id":300035,"date":"2024-06-15T19:02:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T13:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=300035"},"modified":"2024-06-15T19:02:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T13:32:04","slug":"global-gender-gap-report-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/global-gender-gap-report-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Gender Gap Report 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source\u2013 This post on Global Gender Gap Report 2024\u00a0<\/strong>is based on the article “Gender Gap Report 2024: India fares worse than Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan; scores low in political parity indices”\u00a0<\/a> published in \u201cDown to Earth\u201d on 14th June 2024.<\/p>\n

Why in the News?<\/h2>\n

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released the Global Gender Gap Report 2024, highlighting persistent gender inequality across various sectors worldwide.<\/p>\n

About Global Gender Gap Report 2024<\/h2>\n

1. The Global Gender Gap Report 2024 is published by the World Economic Forum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2. It assesses gender parity across four key dimensions:<\/strong> Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment.<\/p>\n

3. It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries\u2019 efforts towards closing these gaps over time since its inception in 2006.<\/p>\n

Key findings of the report<\/h2>\n

1. The global gender gap score for all 146 countries included in this edition stands at 68.5%.<\/p>\n

2. Among the 101 countries continuously covered since 2006, the gap has also improved by +0.1 points to reach 68.6%.<\/p>\n

3. Despite progress, no country has achieved full gender parity. However, 97% of economies included in this edition have closed more than 60% of their gender gap (compared to 85% in 2006).<\/p>\n

5. Top-Ranking Countries:<\/strong><\/p>\n

i) Iceland maintained its position as the most gender-equal country for the 14th consecutive year, with a gender gap score of 91.2%.<\/p>\n

ii) Norway, Finland, and Sweden also rank high, consistently placing in the top five.<\/p>\n

About India’s Performance<\/h2>\n

1.\u00a0 India is ranked 129 in this year\u2019s index. The ranking reflects a slight regression compared to the previous edition.<\/p>\n

2. The decline is primarily due to small decreases in \u2018Educational Attainment\u2019 and \u2018Political Empowerment.\u2019<\/strong> Despite the overall decline, there was a slight improvement in \u2018Economic Participation and Opportunity.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. India ranks the third-lowest<\/strong> among South Asian economies. India fares worse than Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan.<\/p>\n

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Source\u2013 This post on Global Gender Gap Report 2024\u00a0is based on the article “Gender Gap Report 2024: India fares worse than Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan; scores low in political parity indices”\u00a0 published in \u201cDown to Earth\u201d on 14th June 2024. Why in the News? The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released the Global Gender… Continue reading Global Gender Gap Report 2024<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"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],"tags":[11872,10504],"class_list":["post-300035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-down-to-earth","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300035","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}