Gender gap index 2022
Special CorrespondentNEW DELHI
India ranks
💐135 among a total of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index, 2022,
💐 released by the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.
💐The country is the worst performer in the world in the “health and survival” sub-index in which it is ranked 146.
The Global Gender Report, 2022, which includes the index, says
💐it will now take 132 years to reach gender parity,
💐with the gap reducing only by four years since 2021
💐and the gender gap closed by 68.1%.
💐But this does not compensate for the generational loss between 2020 and 2021
as the trends leading up to 2020 showed that the gender gap was set to close within 100 years.
India ranks poorly among its neighbours and is behind Bangladesh (71), Nepal (96), Sri Lanka (110), Maldives (117) and Bhutan (126). Only the performance of Iran (143), Pakistan (145) and Afghanistan (146) was worse than India in South Asia. In 2021, India ranked 140 out of 156 nations.
The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks gender parity across four key dimensions or sub-indices — economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. It measures scores on a 0-to-100 scale, which can be interpreted as the distance covered towards parity or the percentage of the gender gap that has been closed.
Other scores
India ranks 146 in health and survival, 143 in economic participation and opportunity, 107 in educational attainment and 48 in political empowerment. The report notes that India’s score of 0.629 was its seventh-highest score in the past 16 years.
India also “recovered” ground since 2021 in economic participation and opportunity, though the report goes on to add that the labour force participation shrunk for both men (by -9.5 percentage points) and women (-3 percentage points).
Source the hindu
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