October 25, 2025
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- World Economic Forum(WEF) recently released the Gender Gap Report- 2023.
MAJOR FINDINGS
- At the current rate of progress, it will take 131 years to reach full parity.
- Iceland with 91.2% takes the top spot along with Norway (87.9%) and Finland (86.3%)
| It measures gender parity in 146 countries and across four areas: · economic participation and opportunity, · educational attainment, · health and survival and · political empowerment. |
- Iceland is the only one to have closed more than 90% of its gender gap.
- Overall, the Southern Asian region has achieved 63.4% gender parity, the second-lowest of the eight regions.
- As per the latest report, India has been ranked at 127 out of 146 countries in terms of gender equality.
- According to the report, India had attained parity in enrolment across all levels of education.
- India had closed 64.3% of the overall gender gap.
- However, it underlined that India had reached only 36.7 % parity on economic participation and opportunity.
- On political empowerment, India has registered 3% parity, with women representing 15.1% of parliamentarians — the highest for the country since the inaugural report in 2006.
- The index ranked India’s neighbours Pakistan at 142, Bangladesh at 59, China at 107, Nepal at 116, Sri Lanka at 115 and Bhutan at 103.
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