The report titled “World’s Women: Trends and Statistics” was released by the UN-DESA.
According to this report, Gender equality across the world remains a far-fetched goal and no country has achieved it so far.
The report provided a reality-check on the global status of women 25 years since the world adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995.
The gender gap in the labour market has remained as it was since 1995.
The largest gender gap in labour force participation was observed in the prime working age (25-54).
In India, the ratio of female-to-male labour force participation rate was 29.80 in 2019 as against the desired ratio of 50 per cent.