{"id":98983,"date":"2021-04-02T17:41:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T12:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=98983"},"modified":"2021-04-02T17:41:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T12:11:25","slug":"wef-released-global-gender-gap-report-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wef-released-global-gender-gap-report-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"WEF released &#8220;Global Gender Gap Report 2021&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WEF releases the Global Gender Gap Report 2021.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Global Gender Gap Report:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/world-economic-forumwef\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Economic Forum(WEF)<\/a> publishes the <strong>Global Gender Gap Report\u00a0<\/strong>annually\u00a0since 2006.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parameters: <\/strong>The report ranks 156 countries on their progress towards gender parity in four dimensions. Namely,\n<ol>\n<li>Economic Participation and Opportunity<\/li>\n<li>Educational Attainment<\/li>\n<li>Health and Survival<\/li>\n<li>Political Empowerment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Findings of Global Gender Gap Report 2021 related to India:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ranking: <\/strong>India\u2019s ranking on the Index drops 28 places to 140 amongst the 156 nations. In 2020, India was ranked at 112th place in the report.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gender Gap: <\/strong>India has closed 62.5% of its gender gap to date. However, the gender gap increased by 4.2% compared to 2020. This explains why India has fallen 28 places in the ranking.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India is the third-worst performer<\/strong> in the South Asia region. Only Pakistan and Afghanistan rank below India in this region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Reasons for India&#8217;s decline in Global Gender Gap Report 2021:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Political Empowerment: <\/strong>Most of the decline occurred on political empowerment. India declined by 13.5% points with a significant reduction in the number of women ministers (from 23.1% in 2019 to 9.1% in 2021).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economic Participation and Opportunity: <\/strong>It has also declined due to a decrease in women\u2019s labour force. The women\u2019s estimated earned income is only one-fifth of men\u2019s. This puts India amongst the bottom 10 global performers on this indicator.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Health and Survival: <\/strong>India ranks amongst the bottom five countries in this due to:\n<ul>\n<li>High incidence of gender based sex-selective practices.<\/li>\n<li>More than one in four women has faced intimate violence in her lifetime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Educational Attainment: <\/strong>The gender gap in education has improved in primary, secondary and tertiary education. However, gender gaps still persist in terms of literacy. One-third of women are illiterate (34.2%) compared to 17.6% of men.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Other Key Findings of Global Gender Gap Report 2021:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Topped by: <\/strong>Iceland continued to top the index in 2021. It was followed by Finland and Norway. Afghanistan was at the last position at 156.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neighbors<\/strong>: Amongst India\u2019s Neighbours, Bangladesh is ranked at 65, Nepal at 106, Pakistan at 153, Afghanistan at 156, Bhutan at 130, and Sri Lanka at 116.<\/li>\n<li><strong>South Asia<\/strong> was the lowest performer on the index after West Asia and North Africa. Only Bhutan and Nepal had shown progress towards gender parity in 2021 in this region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/india-slips-28-places-to-140-amongst-156-countries-in-wef-global-gender-gap-index\/article34205487.ece\"><strong>Hindu Business line<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? WEF releases the Global Gender Gap Report 2021. About Global Gender Gap Report: The World Economic Forum(WEF) publishes the Global Gender Gap Report\u00a0annually\u00a0since 2006. Parameters: The report ranks 156 countries on their progress towards gender parity in four dimensions. Namely, Economic Participation and Opportunity Educational Attainment Health and Survival Political Empowerment.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wef-released-global-gender-gap-report-2021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WEF released &#8220;Global Gender Gap Report 2021&#8221;<\/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":[1566,164,1305,7965,9],"tags":[1396],"class_list":["post-98983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-soc_5","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98983","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=98983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}