Global Gender Gap Report 2023

News:

2023 Global Gender Gap Report released.

What:

17^th edition of report tracking gender gap situation across 146 countries.

Highlights:

Global gender gap score- 68.4%. This is a 0.3 percentage point improvement since last year.
At the current progress rate, it would take 131 years to achieve full gender parity.
While the score has recovered to pre-pandemic levels, the overall rate of change has slowed down.
No country is yet to achieve full gender parity.
Country-wise performance:
- The top 9 countries have closed at least 80% of their gender gap.
- The top performer is Iceland for the 14^th time, having closed 91.2% of their gap. It is the only country to have closed >90% of its gender gap.
- India:
  - Ranked at 27^th spot- an improvement of 8 positions since last year.
  - The score has improved by 1.4 percentage points and closed its gender gap by 64.3%.
  - Parity has been achieved with regards to enrolment in all levels of education.
  - There has been improvement with regards to:
    - Parity in wages and income
    - Political empowerment- 25.3% parity- with women representing 15.1% of parliamentarians (highest since the report started being published)
    - Sex ratio at birth has improved by 1.9 percentage points
  - However, it has closed only 36.7 % with regards to economic participation and opportunity.
  - There has been a slight decline in the share of women in senior positions and technical roles.
  - India, like China, Vietnam and Azerbaijan, the low rankings under the Health and Survival parameter is because of the skewed sex ratios at birth.
- India’s neighbours:
  - Southern Asian region- 63.4% gender parity, which is the 2^nd lowest of the 8 regions. This is 1.1 percentage point increase since last year.
  - Bangladesh 59^th rank
  - Bhutan 103^rd rank
  - China 107^th rank
  - Sri Lanka 115^th rank
  - Nepal 116^th rank
  - Pakistan 142^nd rank

How:

Makes use of Global Gender Gap Index, a scale between 0 and 100- with the score to be interpreted as distance covered towards gender parity.
The report benchmarks evolution of gender parity across 4 dimensions:
- Economic Participation and Opportunity
- Educational Attainment
- Health and Survival
- Political Empowerment

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