India is ranked 135 among a total of 146 countries in the 2022 global gender inequality index and is the worst player in the world in the “Health and Survival” sub-index where he is ranked 146.
Global Gender Report 2022, which includes the gender inequality index, said that now it will take 132 years to reach gender parity, with a reduced gap with only four years since 2021 and gender gaps closed 68.1%. But this did not compensate for the loss of generations between 2020 and 2021 because the trend that led to 2020 shows that gender gaps are determined to be closed in 100 years. South Asia will need the longest time to achieve gender parity, which is expected to be in 197 years.
India also ranks bad among its neighbors and is behind Bangladesh (71), Nepal (96), Sri Lanka (110), Maldives (117) and Bhutan (126). Only Iran (143), Pakistan (145) and Afghanistan (146) are performing worse than India in South Asia.
In 2021, India ranked 140 out of a total of 156 countries in the index.
4 main dimensions
The global gender inequality index compares gender parity in the four main dimensions or economic participation and opportunities, educational achievement, health and survival, and political empowerment. This measures the score on a scale of 0 to 100, which can be interpreted as the distance traveled to parity or the percentage of gender gaps that have been closed.
India ranks 146 in health and survival, 143 in economic participation and opportunities, 107 in the achievement of education and 48th in political empowerment.
The report noted that India’s score of 0.629 was the seventh highest score in the last 16 years. India has also “restored” land since 2021 in economic participation and opportunities even though the next report added that the participation of the workforce shrank for the two men (with -9.5 percentage points) and women (-3 percentage points). Gender parity scores for the estimated income earned are increased because although values for men and women are reduced, the decrease is more for men. India recorded a declining score in political empowerment due to the decreasing year of women women have served as heads of state over the past 50 years, the report said.
Top 10
Although there are no countries that reach full gender parity, the top 10 economies closed at least 80% of their gender gap, with Iceland (90.8%) leading global ranking. Iceland is the only economy that has closed more than 90% of its gender gap. Other Scandinavian countries such as Finland (86%, 22), Norway (84.5%, 3rd) and Sweden (82.2%, 5th) are in the top five, with other European countries such as Ireland (80.4%) and Germany (80.1%) each in ninth and tenth position. African countries Sub-Sahara Rwanda (81.1%, 6) and Namibia (80.7%, 8), along with one Latin American country, Nicaragua (81%, 7), and one country from East Asia and Pacific , New Zealand (84.1 %, 4), also took a position in the top 10.