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Global gender gap report
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- The World Economic Forum has released the Global Gender Gap Report 2021.
- India has seen a decrease in its ranking on the index by 28 places.
- India has been ranked 140th among 156 countries on the index.
- With this, India became the third-worst performer in South Asia.
- The decline also took place on the economic participation and opportunity subindex.
- The report highlighted that India’s gender gap on this dimension widened by 3% this year.
- It is leading to a 32.6% gap closed till date.
- The women ministers have declined to 9.1% in 2021 from 23.1% in 2019.
- One of the drivers of this decline is a decrease in women’s labour force participation rate, which decreased from 24.8% to 22.3%.
- The share of women in professional and technical roles also decreased to 29.2%.
- In senior and managerial positions, the share of women is also low.
- Only 14.6% of these positions are held by women.
- Moreover only 8.9% of firms are with female top managers.
- The income earned by women in India is the only 1/5th of that earned by men.
- This has put India among the bottom 10 globally on this indicator.
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- Among India’s neighbours, Nepal has been ranked 106, Bangladesh 65, Afghanistan 156, Pakistan 153, Sri Lanka 116, and Bhutan 130.
- The region has an overall gender gap closed at 62.3%.
- In the South Asia region, only two countries - Pakistan and Afghanistan have been ranked below India.
- Iceland has topped the index for the 12th time.
- In 2020, India was ranked 112th among 153 countries.
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