Global Gender Gap Index 2023

Why in news

• Recently, 17th edition of the Global Gender Gap Report 2023 has been released by the World Economic Forum (WEF), evaluating the status of Gender Parity across 146 countries.

What is the Global Gender Gap Index?

• It benchmarks countries on their progress towards gender parity in four Key dimensions with Submatrices.
  • Economic Participation and Opportunity
  • Educational Attainment
  • Health and Survival
  • Political Empowerment
• On each of the four sub-indices as well as on the overall index the GGG index provides scores between 0 and 1, where 1 shows full gender parity and 0 is complete imparity.
• It is the longest-standing index, which tracks progress towards closing these gaps over time since its inception in 2006.

Objectives:

• To serve as a compass to track progress on relative gaps between women and men on health, education, economy and politics.
• Through this annual yardstick, the stakeholders within each country are able to set priorities relevant in each specific economic, political and cultural context.

India’s performance in the Gender Gap Report 2023:

• India has made significant progress, rising from 135th (in 2022) to 127th out of 146 countries in the report's 2023 edition, indicating an improvement in its ranking.
• India’s neighbours Pakistan ranked at 142, Bangladesh at 59, China at 107, Nepal at 116, Sri Lanka at 115 and Bhutan at 103.
• India has improved by 1.4 percentage points and eight positions since the last edition, marking a partial recovery towards its 2020 parity level.
• India had closed 64.3% of the overall gender gap.

PRACTICE QUESTION:

Global Gender Gap Index is published by:

(a) United Nations Entity for Gender Equality

(b) Global Fund for Women

(c) World Bank

(d) World Economic Forum

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