{"id":50015,"date":"2025-06-13T09:28:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T03:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=50015"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T06:06:13","slug":"india-slips-to-131st-in-global-gender-gap-index-2025-progress-and-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/india-slips-to-131st-in-global-gender-gap-index-2025-progress-and-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"India Slips to 131st in Global Gender Gap Index 2025: Progress and Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Gender Gap Index Latest News<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The World Economic Forum has recently published the Global Gender Gap Report 2025.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has slipped to the <\/span><b>131<\/b><b>st<\/b><b> position out of 148 countries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>World Economic Forum\u2019s Global Gender Gap Index 2025<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a fall of two places compared to its 129th rank in 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Released on June 12, 2025, the index places India among the lowest-ranked countries in South Asia in terms of gender parity.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a parity score of 64.1%, the report highlights both marginal improvements in certain sectors and a persistent lag in political empowerment.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understanding the Global Gender Gap Index<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Global Gender Gap Index assesses countries based on four key dimensions:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Economic Participation and Opportunity<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Educational Attainment<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Health and Survival<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Political Empowerment<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The index measures the extent of gender-based disparities and tracks progress in closing these gaps over time.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s Performance Across Key Dimensions<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Economic Participation and Opportunity<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s most notable improvement came in this domain, with a 0.9 percentage point rise in its subindex score to reach 40.7%.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the labour force participation rate remained stagnant at 45.9%, parity in estimated earned income rose from 28.6% to 29.9%.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This indicates gradual progress, though the gender gap in actual income levels continues to be significant.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Educational Attainment<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the education domain, India achieved near parity, scoring 97.1%. The improvement stems from increased female literacy rates and better enrolment in tertiary education.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This shows that while access to education has widened, translating this into workforce representation remains a challenge.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Health and Survival<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s score in this area also improved due to better parity in sex ratio at birth and healthy life expectancy.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the gains must be viewed in light of an overall decline in life expectancy for both men and women, making the parity somewhat nominal in nature.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Political Empowerment<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most worrying decline was observed in political empowerment. Female representation in Parliament fell from 14.7% in 2024 to 13.8% in 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The share of women in ministerial roles also declined from 6.5% to 5.6%.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This marks the second consecutive year of decline and pulls India further from its peak of 30% in 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regional Comparison and Global Leaders<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s position stands out starkly in the South Asian context. Bangladesh made remarkable gains, rising 75 positions to reach 24th globally.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nepal (125), Bhutan (119), and Sri Lanka (130) also ranked above India. Only Maldives (138) and Pakistan (148) scored lower.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Globally, Iceland retained its top position for the 16th consecutive year, followed by Finland, Norway, the UK, and New Zealand.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Gender Parity Trends<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2025 report marks the strongest annual improvement in gender parity since the COVID-19 pandemic, with the global gap closing to 68.8%.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite this, the report estimates that at the current rate, full global parity is still 123 years away.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women comprise 41.2% of the global workforce but hold only 28.8% of leadership positions, underscoring a critical gap in decision-making roles.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Implications for India\u2019s Growth and Policy<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Global Gender Gap Index is not merely a social yardstick, it has strong economic implications.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Economic Forum emphasized that countries making strides toward gender parity are better positioned for resilient and inclusive economic growth.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India&#8217;s stagnant or regressive performance in key areas, particularly political representation, signals a need for stronger institutional efforts and gender-sensitive policymaking.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source :<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-gender-gap-rank-global-gender-gap-index-2025-world-economic-forum\/article69685804.ece#:~:text=India%20has%20ranked%20131%20out,(June%2012%2C%202025).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India ranks 131st in the Global Gender Gap Index 2025, slipping two spots due to poor political representation despite progress in education and economic roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[813,60,22,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-50015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"tag-global-gender-gap-index","9":"tag-mains-articles","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-mains-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50015","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}