Global Gender Gap Report, 2021

The Global Gender Gap report was published by World Economic Forum in April 2021. It benchmarks 156 countries on their progress towards gender parity on the basis of the following framework-

Fig. Global Gender Gap Framework

A score of 1 depicts highest level of equality and the 0 depicts highest inequality.

India related Findings

India has closed 62.5% of its gender gap and ranks 140th among 156 countries in the Gender Gap Index.

• Political Empowerment: Most of the decline has occurred in terms of Political Empowerment. It is due ....