Gender Inequality Index
India ranks 140 among 156 countries on WEF’s Global Gender Gap index
April 5, 2021
Iceland is the world’s best country for gender equality and Afghanistan the worst, a World Economic Forum index shows. Overall, this year’s report finds that progress has stagnated, with widening gender gaps in political empowerment globally. That means at the current rate, i...
Read MoreHDI 2019: India continues to trawl the bottom
December 11, 2019
The extent of gender inequality prevailing in India was highlighted in the Gender Development Index, where India ranked lowly at 122 out of 162 countries, showing that the discriminatory attitude was widespread in the country with severe inequalities in three main areas - reprodu...
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