Global Gender Gap Index

Why in news?

• The World Economic Forum (WEF) has agreed to make changes in criteria for Global Gender Gap Reports by taking into account the participation of women at panchayat level to rank countries in its future reports.
• It will better India’s position at the global level.

About Global Gender Gap Index:

• The gender gap is the difference between women and men as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or attitudes.
• It benchmarks countries on their progress towards gender parity in four Key dimensions with Sub Matrices.
  • 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 position:

• India was ranked at 135 out of 146 countries in Global Gender Gap Index, 2022.
• India’s overall score has improved from 0.625 (in 2021) to 0.629, which is its seventh-highest score in the last 16 years.

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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