Saturday 7 March 2020

GENDER GAP INDEX- 2019


The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks 153 countries on their progress towards gender parity in 4 dimensions:
·  Economic Participation And Opportunity
·  Educational Attainment
·  Health And Survival
·  Political Empowerment
Over the index, the highest possible score is 1(equality) and the lowest possible score is 0(inequality).
India Specific Findings:
·         India has been ranked 112th among 153 countries in the annual Global Gender Gap Index for 2020.
·         India has slipped to the 112th spot from the 108th position in the last edition.
·         India has been ranked below countries like China (106th), Sri Lanka (102nd), Nepal (101st), Brazil (92nd), Indonesia (85th) and Bangladesh (50th).
·         India has improved to 18th place on political empowerment but it has slipped to 150th on health and survival, to 149th in terms of economic participation and opportunity and to 112th place for educational attainment.
·         Among the 153 countries studied, India is the only country where the economic gender gap (0.354) is larger than the political gender gap (0.411).
·         India is among the countries with very low women representation on company boards (13.8%).
·         On health & survival, four large countries (Pakistan, India, Vietnam and China) fare badly with millions of women there not getting the same access to health as men.
 Mr Agni Dash
Content Writer, PECUC

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