India climbs eight places to 127 in global gender index: WEF report

Last Updated23/06/2023

Recently, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released its Global Gender Gap Report for 2023.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) ranked India 127 out of 146 countries in its Global Gender Gap Report 2023- up eight places from last year
The country has improved by 1.4 percentage points, marking a partial recovery towards its 2020 parity level
India was ranked 135 in 2022
Iceland is the most gender-equal country for the 14th consecutive year and the only one to have closed more than 90% of its gender gap

The gender gap is the difference between women and men as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments.
It benchmarks countries in their progress towards gender parity in four key areas:
- Economic Participation and Opportunity
- Educational Attainment
- Health and Survival
- Political Empowerment
It provides scores between 0 and 1, where 1 shows full gender parity and 0 is complete imparity.
It is the longest-standing index, which tracks progress towards closing these gaps over time since its inception in 2006.

India has closed 64.3% of the overall gender gap
India has attained parity in enrolment across all levels of education
However, India has only 36.7% parity in economic participation and opportunity.
There had been an uptick in parity in wages and income,but the share of women in senior positions and technical roles had dropped slightly.
For India, the 1.9 percentage point improvement in sex ratio at birth had driven up parity after more than a decade

The WEF is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
It was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit organization
Headquartes: Geneva, Switzerland.
Major Reports by WEF
- Global Competitiveness Report.
- Energy Transition Index
- Global Gender Gap Report
- Global Risk Report