{"id":340248,"date":"2025-06-13T16:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=340248"},"modified":"2025-06-15T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T13:55:07","slug":"gender-gap-index-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gender-gap-index-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Gap Index 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> India has ranked 131 out of 148 countries in the World Economic Forum&#8217;s Global Gender Gap Report 2025, slipping two places from its position last year.<\/p>\n<h2>About Global Gender Gap Index<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_340249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340249\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-340249\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Source-WEF.png?resize=394%2C352&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Source-WEF.png?resize=300%2C268&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Source-WEF.png?resize=768%2C685&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Source-WEF.png?w=888&amp;ssl=1 888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-340249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; WEF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It <strong>annually<\/strong> benchmarks the <strong>current state and evolution of gender parity<\/strong> across <strong>four key dimensions (sub-indexes):<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Economic Participation and Opportunity<\/li>\n<li>Educational Attainment<\/li>\n<li>Health and Survival<\/li>\n<li>Political Empowerment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Launched in:<\/strong> <strong>2006<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Feature:<\/strong> It is the <strong>longest-standing index<\/strong> tracking the <strong>progress of numerous countries\u2019 efforts towards closing these gaps over time.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Global Gender Gap Index, 2025 (19th edition) and India<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India ranked <strong>131st<\/strong> in global gender parity out of <strong>148 countries<\/strong>, with a <strong>score of 64.4%,<\/strong> <strong>down three positions<\/strong> from the previous year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Comparisons with neighbours:<\/strong> India is <strong>behind<\/strong> its neighbours \u2013 Bhutan (119th), Nepal (125th) and Sri Lanka (130th).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economic Participation and Opportunity:<\/strong> India saw an <strong>improvement<\/strong> in <strong>economic participation and opportunity<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>score rose to 40.7% <\/strong>(improved by +.9 percentage points), supported by an <strong>increase in estimated earned income from 28.6% to 29.9%,<\/strong> while <strong>labour-force participation remained steady at 45.9%.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Educational Attainment<\/strong>: India scored <strong>1%,<\/strong> reflecting <strong>gains<\/strong> in female literacy and tertiary education enrolment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Health and survival: <\/strong>This also <strong>improved<\/strong> due to a <strong>better sex ratio at birth<\/strong> and <strong>increased healthy life expectancy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Political empowerment: This sub-index declined<\/strong>, with women\u2019s representation in <strong>parliament<\/strong> <strong>dropping from 14.7% to 13.8%.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Global highlights of the Report<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Leaders:<\/strong> <strong>Iceland<\/strong> leads the rankings for the 16th year running, followed by <strong>Finland, Norway, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>global gender gap has closed to 68.8%,<\/strong> marking the strongest annual advancement since the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>progress made<\/strong> in this edition was <strong>driven primarily<\/strong> by significant strides in <strong>political empowerment and economic participation <\/strong>while <strong>educational attainment and health and survival<\/strong> maintained near-<strong>parity levels<\/strong> above 95%.<\/li>\n<li>However, despite women representing 41.2% of the <strong>global workforce<\/strong>, a stark <strong>leadership gap<\/strong> persists with women <strong>holding only 28.8% of top leadership positions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India has ranked 131 out of 148 countries in the World Economic Forum&#8217;s Global Gender Gap Report 2025, slipping two places from its position last year. About Global Gender Gap Index It annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (sub-indexes): Economic Participation and Opportunity Educational Attainment Health&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gender-gap-index-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gender Gap Index 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":340249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,12039,1],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-340248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-knolls","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Source-WEF.png?fit=888%2C792&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340248","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\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}