{"id":12042,"date":"2023-06-15T03:04:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12042"},"modified":"2025-03-30T06:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T01:29:02","slug":"gender-social-norms-index-gsni-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gender-social-norms-index-gsni-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) 2023:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It quantifies <strong>biases against women,<\/strong> capturing people\u2019s attitudes toward women\u2019s roles.<\/li>\n<li>It tracked people\u2019s attitudes towards women in four dimensions: <strong>political, educational, economic and physical integrity.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key points of GSNI 2023<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The index, covering 85 per cent of the global population, reveals that <strong>close to 9 out of 10 men and women hold fundamental biases against women.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nearly 90% of people<\/strong> still hold at least one <strong>bias against women<\/strong> and 25 per cent of people believe it is justified for a man to beat his wife.<\/li>\n<li>Countries with <strong>greater bias<\/strong> in gender social norms also show a <strong>lower presence of women in parliament.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Indigenous women, migrant women and <strong>women with disabilities <\/strong>have <strong>meagre political representation<\/strong>, demonstrating how overlapping biases can further reduce opportunities for women.<\/li>\n<li>The recent increase in <strong>education achievements has not translated<\/strong> into better economic outcomes and opportunities for women.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the United Nations Development Programme?<\/h3>\n<p>The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations&#8217; global development network. It is one of the leading organizations within the UN system that works to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities, and build sustainable development in countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/world\/prejudices-against-women-didn-t-reduce-in-last-decade-90-people-still-hold-gender-bias-un-89994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Prejudices against women didn\u2019t reduce in the last decade; 90% of people still hold gender bias: UN<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) 2023 quantifies biases against women, capturing people\u2019s attitudes toward women\u2019s roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}