Global Gender Gap Report
The Global Gender Gap Report is published by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The index covers over 146 countries and is designed to measure gender-based gaps in access to resources and opportunities in countries rather than the actual levels of the available resources and opportunities in those countries.
The report's Gender Gap Index ranks countries according to calculated gender gap between women and men in four key areas to gauge the state of gender equality in a country:
- Economic Participation and Opportunity (access to salaries and high-skilled environment)
- Education Attainment (access to basic and high-level education)
- Health & Survival (life expectancy and sex ratio)
- Political Empowerment (representation in political decision-making)
The report measures women's disadvantage compared to men, and is not a measure of equality of the gender gap. Gender imbalances to the advantage of women do not affect the score.
The Global Gender Gap Report is published by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The index covers over 146 countries and is designed to measure gender-based gaps in access to resources and opportunities in countries rather than the actual levels of the available resources and opportunities in those countries.
The report's Gender Gap Index ranks countries according to calculated gender gap between women and men in four key areas to gauge the state of gender equality in a country:
- Economic Participation and Opportunity (access to salaries and high-skilled environment)
- Education Attainment (access to basic and high-level education)
- Health & Survival (life expectancy and sex ratio)
- Political Empowerment (representation in political decision-making)
The report measures women's disadvantage compared to men, and is not a measure of equality of the gender gap. Gender imbalances to the advantage of women do not affect the score.
SUBJECT Variables
OVERALL PERFORMANCE
- India ranked 127th amongst 146 countries on the Global Gender Gap Report 2023, 17 positions below Malawi.
- India has so far successfully closed only 64.3% of its gender gap based on its score of 0.643 in the Global Gender Gap Report 2023. In comparison to 2013, India's gender gap has widened further by 1.8 percentage points in 2023.
- This means that women are disadvantaged compared to men in India by 35.7% in 2023
- Since 2013, India's gender gap has remained between 62-68% signifying not much progress has been made in gender equality over the last 10 years.
- The biggest gaps are within Political Empowerment (75%) and Economic participation (63%) of women which contribute to the overall gender gap
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Economic Participation & Opportunity
This indicator factors access to women's representation in the labour force, access to equitable wages and high-skilled environment.
- India is currently ranked 142nd amongst 146 countries on Economic Participation and Opportunity, with only Pakistan, Iran, Algeria, and Afghanistan below it.
- The gender gap in the economic participation and opportunity for women in India is in a state of continuous decline.
- India has so far managed to close only 36.7% of the gender gap in economic participation and opportunity. This effectively means that women are at a 63% disadvantage compared to men in access to equal work opportunities and participation in the nation's economic activity.
- Some of the areas adversely impacting the scores are women's representation in the country's labour force and the participation of legislators and senior managers.
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