03 Apr Global Gender Gap 2021
(GS PAPER-3, INDEX
Source- The Hindu)
Context-
India has fallen 28 places in the world economic forum Global gender gap report 2021 is now ranking 140 among 156 countries
highlights of the report in Indian perspective
- the gender gap in this indicator widened by 3% this year
- The share of women in professional and Technical roles declined by the 29.22 percent
- The share of women in senior and managerial post is at 14.6 and only 8.9 % of firm in the country has top female managers
- The estimated earned income of women in India is only one-fifth of men which puts the country among the bottom 10 globally on this indicator.
- India has declined in this index by 13.5% points and ranks 51 in women’s participation in politics
- In this index, India has been at 114
- India has shared the worst in the indicator which includes the sex ratio and economic participation of women
Global Gender Gap report 2021
- It is published by World Economic Forum
- It Benchmarks the evolution of gender-based gap among four dimension-
- economic participation and opportunity
- educational attainment
- Health and survival
- political empowerment
- This year the Global gender gap index benchmark 156 countries
- Iceland is the most gender-equal country in the world for the twelfth time
Impact of covid-19 on the report
- the report shows that women experience a bigger gender gap in potential based job transition in fields where they are currently under-represented such as
- cloud computing
- Engineering
- product development
- there was an increase of stress in society around the job insecurity and difficulty in maintaining work-life balance among women with children
World Economic Forum
- It is an international organization for public-private cooperation
- It engages the 4 most political business cultural and other leaders of the society to shape Global regional and industrial agendas
-Khyati Khare
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