{"id":39118,"date":"2018-12-19T17:45:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T12:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=39118"},"modified":"2018-12-19T17:45:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T12:15:57","slug":"india-ranks-108th-in-wef-gender-gap-index-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-ranks-108th-in-wef-gender-gap-index-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"India ranks 108th in WEF gender gap index 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/economy\/indicators\/india-ranks-108th-in-wef-gender-gap-index-2018\/articleshow\/67145220.cms\"><strong>India ranks 108th in WEF gender gap index 2018 <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India ranked 108th in World Economic Forum (WEF) Gender Gap Index, same as 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India fell 21 places on the World Economic Forum\u2019s Global Gender Gap index to 108 which is far below the global average and much behind its neighbors China and Bangladesh<\/li>\n<li>In Global Gender Gap Report 2018, India ranks 142nd out of 149 countries in the economic opportunity and participation subindex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Finding of World Economic Forum Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2016, India\u2019s rank was 87. In 2006, when the World Economic Forum started measuring gender gap across the world, India\u2019s rank was 10 notches higher than it is in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>India needs to make improvements across the board, from women&#8217;s participation to getting more women into senior and professional roles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Where India lost out<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India\u2019s greatest challenges were in the <strong>economic participation and opportunities for women<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>66% of women\u2019s work in India is unpaid, compared to 12% of men\u2019s.<\/li>\n<li>India did not perform too well in the health and survival pillar either, where it is ranked 141 \u2013 the fourth-lowest in the world.<\/li>\n<li>The report said gender gaps in political empowerment, life expectancy and basic literacy also caused India\u2019s rank to slip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Positive Side<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India has slightly <strong>improved in WEF&#8217;s wage equality<\/strong> for similar work indicator, where it stood at 72nd place.<\/li>\n<li>The country has also closed its <strong>tertiary education enrolment gap<\/strong> for the first time in 2018 and has managed to keep its primary and secondary gaps closed for the third year running.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India has the second-largest artificial intelligence (AI) workforce<\/strong> but one of the largest AI gender gaps, with only 22 percent of roles filled by women.<\/li>\n<li>India fully closed the gap in primary and secondary education enrolment for the second year in a row.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Around the world<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The global gender gap widened this year, for the first time since the World Economic Forum\u2019s index started<\/li>\n<li><strong>At the top of the Global Gender Gap Index is Iceland<\/strong>. The country has closed nearly 88% of its gap. It has been the world\u2019s most gender-equal country for nine years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About The Global Gender Gap<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduced by the <strong>World Economic Forum<\/strong> to examine four critical areas of inequality between men and women:<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economic participation and opportunity<\/strong> \u2013 outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Educational attainment<\/strong> \u2013 outcomes on access to basic and higher level education<\/li>\n<li><strong>Political empowerment<\/strong> \u2013 outcomes on representation in decision-making structures<\/li>\n<li><strong>Health and survival<\/strong> \u2013 outcomes on life expectancy and sex ratio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In addition, this year\u2019s edition studies skills gender gaps related to Artificial Intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gender Inequality Index of UNDP<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development\u2014<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reproductive health<\/strong> &#8211; measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates<\/li>\n<li><strong>Empowerment<\/strong> &#8211; Measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and proportion of adult females and males aged 25 years and older with at least some secondary education<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economic status<\/strong> &#8211; expressed as labour market participation and measured by labour force participation rate of female and male populations aged 15 years and older.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thus the higher the GII value the more disparities between females and males and the more loss to human development.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India ranks 108th in WEF gender gap index 2018 News: India ranked 108th in World Economic Forum (WEF) Gender Gap Index, same as 2017. 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