New Delhi, June 12: India has slipped two places on the World Economic Forum\u2019s (WEF) Global Gender Gap index to 129th place, while Iceland retained its top position in the rankings published on June 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Within South Asia, India was ranked fifth after Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan, while Pakistan was ranked last. Globally, Sudan was ranked last on the index of 146 countries, while Pakistan slipped three places to 145th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India figured among the economies with the lowest levels of economic parity, alongside Bangladesh, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan, and Morocco. All of them registered less than 30% gender parity in estimated earned income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, India showed the best gender parity in terms of enrolment in secondary education, while it scored well on political empowerment of women at 65th rank globally. With regard to parity in the number of years with female\/male heads of state for the last 50 years, India was ranked 10th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a population of more than 1.4 billion, India has closed 64.1% of its gender gap in 2024, with the decline of two places from 127th last year, mainly due to small declines in \u2018Educational Attainment\u2019 and \u2018Political Empowerment,\u2019 parameters, while \u2018Economic Participation\u2019 and \u2018Opportunity\u2019 scores slightly improved. The WEF said India\u2019s economic parity score has trended upwards for the past four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn the Political Empowerment subindex, India scored within the top-10 on the head-of-state indicator, but its scores for women\u2019s representation at the federal level, in Ministerial positions (6.9%), and in Parliament (17.2%), remain relatively low,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The WEF said the world has closed 68.5% of the gender gap, but at the current pace, it will take another 134 years \u2014 equivalent to five generations \u2014 to achieve full gender parity. Since last year, the gender gap has closed by 0.1 percentage points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDespite some bright spots, the slow and incremental gains highlighted in this year\u2019s Global Gender Gap Report underscore the urgent need for a renewed global commitment to achieving gender parity, particularly in economic and political spheres,\u201d WEF Managing Director Saadia Zahidi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe cannot wait until 2158 for parity. The time for decisive action is now,\u201d she added. Iceland was followed by Finland, Norway, New Zealand, and Sweden in the top five. The U.K. was ranked 14th, while the USA was at the 43rd place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi, June 12: India has slipped two places on the World Economic Forum\u2019s (WEF) Global Gender Gap index to 129th place, while Iceland retained its top position in the rankings published on June 12. Within South Asia, India was ranked fifth after Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan, while Pakistan was ranked last. Globally, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n