India ranks 108th in Global Gender Gap Index: WEF

India ranks 108^th in Global Gender Gap Index: WEF

• As per the latest reports of Global Gender Gap Index report released by the World Economic Forum, India has ranked 108^th in the list of 145 countries.
• It is the 10^th Edition of the reports
• Ireland topped the ranking, which is followed by Norway, Finland and Sweden respectively.
• China ranked 91^st whereas Brazil ranked 84^th among the developing countries.
• India Jumps by 6 places from 114^th to 108^th in the year 2015.
• Global Gender Gap Index :The Global Gender Gap Index is based on the gap between men & women in each country across the four sub-categories includes
  • Economic participation & opportunity
  • Educational attainment
  • Health and Survival
  • Political Empowerment
• In political empowerment, India has jumped in overall rankings over the previous year because the percentage of women in ministerial positions has more than doubled from 9 per cent in 2014 to 22 per cent in 2015.India ranks at 9the position.
• In economic participation and opportunity, The Gap between men & women in labour force participation, remuneration and advancement, India ranks 139. The Gap has widened by 7%.
•  Educational attainment, the gap between men’s & women’s current access to education, India ranks 125.
• In health & survival, India ranks 143. This is calculated by estimating the difference between women's and men's health through the sex ratio at birth and the gap between their life expectancy.
• World Ecomonic Forum
  • The World Economic Forum is an International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
  • It was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation
  • It’s headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • It is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests, working in close cooperation with all major international organisations.
  • WEF engages political, business, academic and other leaders of society in collaborative efforts to improve the state of the world.
  • It serves and builds sustained communities through an integrated concept of high-level meetings, research networks, task forces and digital collaboration.