Gender gap Report 2019
Published by: World Economic Forum
India's rank: 112th (from its 108th position last year) among 153 countries
# The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks 153 countries on their progress towards gender parity in four dimensions:
1. Economic Participation and Opportunity,
2. Educational Attainment,
3. Health and Survival and
4. Political Empowerment
1. Economic Participation and Opportunity,
2. Educational Attainment,
3. Health and Survival and
4. Political Empowerment
Other country ranks: Iceland (1st) remains the world's most gender-neutral country, China (106th), Sri Lanka (102nd), Nepal (101st), (92nd), (85th) and Indonesia Brazil Bangladesh (50th).
Bottom Ranks: Yemen is ranked the worst (153rd), while Iraq is 152nd and Pakistan 151st.
Opportunity gap has worsened: The ponucar gender gap will take 95 years to close, compared to 107 years last year. Worldwide, women now hold 25.2% of parliamentary lower-house seats and 21.2% of ministerial positions, compared to 24.1% and 19%, respectively last year.
Economic opportunities: For women are extremely limited in India (35.4%), Pakistan (32.7%), Yemen (27.3%), Syria (24.9%) and Iraq (22.7%). It also named India among countries with very low women representation on company boards (13.8 %), while it was even worse in China (9.7%).
Low sex ratios at birth in India: Pakistan, fare badly with India, Vietnam and China millions of women there not getting the same access to health as men, the WEF said. It also flagged abnormally low sex ratios at birth in India (91 girls for every 100 boys) and Pakistan (92/100).
WEF's Founder and Executive Chairman: Klaus Schwab said.
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