India improves ranking in Global Gender Gap report of World Economic Forum
8 years, 4 months ago

India improves ranking in Global Gender Gap report of World Economic Forum

Op India  

India has jumped to 87th position in year 2016 from the 114th position it had in year 2014 in global ranking of countries on an index that measures gender gap. This index is released by the World Economic Forum as part of its yearly Global Gender Gap report. The latest report recognizes the efforts made by India in this by noting that the country could fully close its primary and secondary education enrolment gender gaps. While the report lauds India for making key investments in women’s education, it cautions that nothing special has been done to remove barriers to women’s participation in the workforce.

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Caregivers to contributors: Can India unlock the full potential of its female workforce?
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Caregivers to contributors: Can India unlock the full potential of its female workforce?

Live Mint  

India’s economic future hinges on a crucial yet underutilized resource: its women. Better access to childcare, elderly care, and workplace flexibility could help transform India's labour market and unlock new drivers of economic growth and social equality. Around 41.7% of India’s women were in the labour force in the 12 months ended June 2024, according to the government’s Periodic Labour …

Women’s labour force participation in India rises to 35.6%
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Women’s labour force participation in India rises to 35.6%

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: A rapid rise in women’s labour force participation in India from just 21.6 per cent in 2018-19 to 35.6 per cent in 2023-24 is expected to push female employment in South Asia, finds the World Bank. South Asia’s female labour force participation today remains among the lowest in the world with over 400 million working-age women in the region …

World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report 2024: 134 Years to Parity, India Ranks 129th
9 months ago

World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report 2024: 134 Years to Parity, India Ranks 129th

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 22, 2024 14:00 IST - 6 MINS READ The Global Gender Gap Report 2024, released by the World Economic Forum, presents a dire picture of the current state and evolution of gender parity across four indices: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. In its assessment of the four indices, the Global …

Road ahead for PM Modi, India in a China +1 world
9 months ago

Road ahead for PM Modi, India in a China +1 world

Hindustan Times  

Though his party didn’t win the landslide victory he hoped for, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has secured a rare third five-year term as India’s PM. In addition, India’s media environment has become more polarised as many more people get their news online than when Modi was first elected a decade ago. The World Economic Forum’s most recent gender gap report …

Reshaping gender roles in India: Improving women’s economic outcomes
9 months, 1 week ago

Reshaping gender roles in India: Improving women’s economic outcomes

Hindustan Times  

Women with children all across the globe face the daunting task of balancing career growth with caregiving responsibilities, which often leads to career stagnation and perpetuates several gender gaps in accessing decent jobs. Across G20 countries, without exception, women on average perform the majority of the daily time spent on unpaid care work, ranging from 90.5% in India to 60.2 …

India 129th on Global Gender Gap index, this country is on top: Complete list
9 months, 1 week ago

India 129th on Global Gender Gap index, this country is on top: Complete list

Hindustan Times  

India slipped two places on the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap index to 129th place as Iceland retained its top position in the rankings. India was among the economies with the lowest levels of economic parity, with Bangladesh, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan, and Morocco as all of them registered less than 30 per cent gender parity in estimated earned income. …

India ranks 129th on global gender gap index, Iceland on top: World Economic Forum
9 months, 1 week ago

India ranks 129th on global gender gap index, Iceland on top: World Economic Forum

New Indian Express  

The WEF said India's economic parity score has trended upwards for the past four years. In the Political Empowerment subindex, India scored within the top-10 on the head-of-state indicator, but its scores for women's representation at the federal level, in ministerial positions and in Parliament, remain relatively low, it added. The WEF said the world has closed 68.5 per cent …

India ranks 134th in global human development index, says UNDP report
1 year ago

India ranks 134th in global human development index, says UNDP report

The Hindu  

March 15, 2024 12:27 am | Updated 07:43 am IST India has moved up a rank on the global Human Development Index, according to the United Nations Development Programme report ‘Breaking the gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarised world’ released on March 13. India’s southern neighbour Sri Lanka has been ranked much ahead at 78, while China is ranked 75, …

India starts survey to assess women participation in workforce
1 year, 1 month ago

India starts survey to assess women participation in workforce

The Hindu  

The Union Ministries of Labour & Employment and Women & Child Development have started a joint survey on increasing women participation in the workforce. The survey was announced by Union Minister Smriti Irani in New Delhi at a function “Women in the Workforce for Viksit Bharat” on Tuesday. Latest PLFS data The latest results of the Periodic Labour Force Survey, …

For an equal future, G20’s gender vision
1 year, 6 months ago

For an equal future, G20’s gender vision

Hindustan Times  

The G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration 2023 can only be described using two adjectives – inclusive and visionary. Right from the outset, the Declaration makes its commitment crystal clear: G20 nations are dedicated to closing gender gaps and promoting “the full, equal, effective, and meaningful participation of women” in the economy as decision-makers. The New Delhi Declaration dedicates a distinct …

DC Edit | Women's employment a steep challenge
1 year, 7 months ago

DC Edit | Women's employment a steep challenge

Deccan Chronicle  

India is the most populous nation on earth and more than half of its people, 52 per cent to be precise, are aged below 30. Given that India’s sex ratio is almost evenly poised, about 35 crore women, a number almost equal to the whole population of the United States, belong to this group. Pit this against the current data …

REPORT | 131 years more to close global gender gap: World Economic Forum
1 year, 7 months ago

REPORT | 131 years more to close global gender gap: World Economic Forum

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 01, 2023 18:45 IST - 4 MINS READ Providing valuable insights into the progress made towards bridging the gender gap worldwide, the World Economic Forum recently released its 17th edition of the Global Gender Gap Report. The top nine countries in this year’s report have made remarkable strides, with all closing the gender gap by over 80 …

At helm of G20, India is shifting narrative to women-led development
1 year, 8 months ago

At helm of G20, India is shifting narrative to women-led development

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: Women-led development forms the core of India’s G20 presidency. HT takes a look at the progress of past G20 initiatives and sheds light on the imminent challenges faced by women More women in G20 participate in labour markets than 2012 At the 2014 summit in Brisbane, G20 leaders committed to reducing the gender gap in labour force participation …

Bridging the gap: On India and Gender Gap Report
1 year, 8 months ago

Bridging the gap: On India and Gender Gap Report

The Hindu  

June 24, 2023 12:10 am | Updated 11:05 am IST India has climbed eight places in the annual Gender Gap Report, 2023, and is ranked 127 out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity, from 135 last year. On the four key markers of the index – economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment …

India improves gender parity ranking
1 year, 9 months ago

India improves gender parity ranking

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: India ranks 127 out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity, as per the World Economic Forum's annual Gender Gap Report, 2023. The present ranking is an improvement of 1.4 percentage points and eight positions since last year when the WEF ranked India 135 out of 146 countries in its 2022 report. On political empowerment, the report …

India climbs eight places to 127 in global gender index, says WEF report
1 year, 9 months ago

India climbs eight places to 127 in global gender index, says WEF report

The Hindu  

India was ranked at 127 out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity — an improvement of eight places from last year, according to the annual Gender Gap Report, 2023 of the World Economic Forum. The country had improved by 1.4 percentage points and eight positions since the last edition, marking a partial recovery towards its 2020 parity level, …

Netherlands in 28th on Global Gender Gap Index this year
1 year, 9 months ago

Netherlands in 28th on Global Gender Gap Index this year

NL Times  

The Netherlands is in 28th place on this year’s Global Gender Gap Index. According to the study, performed by the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, our country has managed to close 77.7 percent of the gender gap. While the Netherlands scored exceptionally well on education equality, coming in first place globally, most women still work part-time. The Global Gender …

India must bridge the gender equality gap
1 year, 10 months ago

India must bridge the gender equality gap

Hindustan Times  

South Asia is home to 860 million women, three-fourths of whom live in India. The average wage salaries for women remain at around 70% of their male colleagues India ranks 112 in the Global Gender Gap Report 2020 of WEF. World Bank figures reveal that in 2016 despite women-headed households in India being around 14.6%, women faced high levels of …

India has big gap in sex ratio; Female population leads in Hong Kong, Nepal
1 year, 11 months ago

India has big gap in sex ratio; Female population leads in Hong Kong, Nepal

Live Mint  

This week, the United Nations informed the world that India was now its most populous nation. Nearly 50% of India's population is below the age of 25 years, according to UNFPA India representative Andrea Wojnar. According to the UNFPA's State of World Population Report 2023, about 25% of India's population is in the age group of 0-14 years, 18% in …

Aakar Patel | Why is India’s rank on some global indices not improving?
2 years ago

Aakar Patel | Why is India’s rank on some global indices not improving?

Deccan Chronicle  

India’s most reputable news agency, the Press Trust of India, reported last week that “India ranks 42 in 55 countries on International Intellectual Property Index”. Similarly, in The Economist’s Global Liveability Index, two Indian cities made it — Delhi, which fell from 110th to 118th place, and Mumbai, that went down from 115th to 124th. In the World Economic Forum’s …

Why women get fewer jobs and earn lesser wages than men in India
2 years ago

Why women get fewer jobs and earn lesser wages than men in India

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 27, 2023 12:39 IST Following the announcement by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in October last year of equal pay for all men and women Team India cricketers, the highest bid received by a cricketer in the inaugural Women’s Premier League is being celebrated as a watershed moment, not just in India but globally. …

Addressing gender inequalities: India needs bold steps
2 years, 1 month ago

Addressing gender inequalities: India needs bold steps

Hindustan Times  

India, which assumed presidency of G20 this year, has stated that it will prioritise inclusive growth and development, with women empowerment and representation at the forefront of its G20 discussions. This indeed is a desirable objective, given the large gender inequalities that exist in several G20 member countries, especially in India, which also gets reflected in its overall human development …

Budget fails to address gender inequality, women development: Expert
2 years, 1 month ago

Budget fails to address gender inequality, women development: Expert

New Indian Express  

"The role of transpersons is very important in society. Further, there should have been a big push in terms of girl child development, women's development and tribal women's development. Filmmaker and activist Priya Babu said, "Transpersons are still fighting for social acceptance and recognition in the family. Kanmozhi, a feminist from Madurai, said India ranks 135 out of 146 total …

India pushes for inclusion of women’s political representation at grassroots for WEF’s Gender Gap report
2 years, 1 month ago

India pushes for inclusion of women’s political representation at grassroots for WEF’s Gender Gap report

The Hindu  

India has successfully pushed for including women’s participation in local government bodies as a parameter for the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report where it has traditionally not fared well. “At the Women and Child Development Ministry, we are happy to share that the World Economic Forum has recognised the need to enumerate women’s participation in local government bodies …

Why India can’t afford women staying out of labour market
2 years, 4 months ago

Why India can’t afford women staying out of labour market

Live Mint  

Separately, Oxfam India’s India Discrimination Report 2022 revealed that wages are lower for women overwhelmingly because of discriminatory practices and only slightly due to lack of education and work experience. Besides, a significant number of qualified women were found unwilling to join the labour market due to ‘family responsibilities’, said the report. A recent Bloomberg Economics analysis estimated that though …

Japan’s continuing struggle with gender parity
2 years, 6 months ago

Japan’s continuing struggle with gender parity

The Hindu  

According to recent data, Japan recorded the lowest total births in 2021 at just about 8,10,000. Japan also ranked lowest among the developed countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2022. Japan’s overall low rank in the Gender Gap Index stems from the low presence of women in leadership roles and politics. Last month, Japan’s land ministry …

Why India's Laxmi Deserves More Shakti Through Equal Skill Training and Job Opportunities
2 years, 6 months ago

Why India's Laxmi Deserves More Shakti Through Equal Skill Training and Job Opportunities

News 18  

A recent report by consulting group McKinsey Global has highlighted the immense economic potential India is failing to realise, all because women face work-related hindrances. As per the Time Use Survey Report 2019, women in India spend only 61 minutes per day on employment and related activities, as opposed to 247 minutes spent on unpaid domestic services. According to 2019-2020 …

India at 75: The status of women in Independent India
2 years, 7 months ago

India at 75: The status of women in Independent India

The Hindu  

“The future beckons to us. The NFHS-5 report, which sampled a population of 7.24 lakh women and 1 lakh men in the age group of 15-49, found that the female literacy rate climbed to 72 per cent. 85 per cent of married women who earn cash say they make decisions alone or jointly with their husband on how their earnings …

Indian women outdo men in taking the entrepreneurial plunge during pandemic
2 years, 8 months ago

Indian women outdo men in taking the entrepreneurial plunge during pandemic

The Hindu  

Here is a rosy picture. We saw this especially in the years of the pandemic, when women sheltered from a shrinking job market by starting their own businesses that also created opportunities for other women,” says Ruchee Anand, senior director, India Talent & Learning Solutions, LinkedIn, while interpreting the numbers. Managerial level Apart from being under represented in leadership roles, …

India ranks 135 out of 146 in Global Gender Gap Index
2 years, 8 months ago

India ranks 135 out of 146 in Global Gender Gap Index

The Hindu  

India ranks 135 among a total of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index 2022 and is the worst performer in the world in the “health and survival” sub-index where it is ranked 146. The Global Gender Report 2022, which includes the Gender Gap Index, says it will now take 132 years to reach gender parity, with the gap …

Women hit hardest by cost-of-living crisis, gender parity seems distant dream
2 years, 8 months ago

Women hit hardest by cost-of-living crisis, gender parity seems distant dream

Live Mint  

The cost-of-living crisis is expected to hit women the hardest with a widening gender gap in the labour force, warned the annual Gender Gap Report 2022 of the World Economic Forum released in Geneva. The global gender gap index is defined around four main factors – salaries and economic opportunity, education, health, and political empowerment. On India, the WEF said …

Trillions at stake as Indian women disappear from workforce
2 years, 9 months ago

Trillions at stake as Indian women disappear from workforce

Deccan Chronicle  

For years, Sanchuri Bhuniya fought her parents’ pleas to settle down. Increased domestic duties, lack of childcare options after school shutdowns, and a surge in marriages — which often confine women’s autonomy in India — help explain the difference in outcome. They can’t negotiate the labor market as effectively as men do.” Dreams of freedom or a well-paid office job …

India’s Ageing Population Has More Women but Systemic Inequality Will Hurt Them More than Men
3 years, 2 months ago

India’s Ageing Population Has More Women but Systemic Inequality Will Hurt Them More than Men

News 18  

India has nearly 67% of its population in the 15 to 64 years age group. According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2019-20, women’s labour force participation rate was lower than men in all the age groups. Lower lifetime earnings due to the pervasive gender wage gap imply that even the small percentage of women who receive wages for their …

Female labour income in India is at 18%, says World Inequality Report
3 years, 3 months ago

Female labour income in India is at 18%, says World Inequality Report

The Hindu  

Men in India capture 82% of labour income, while women earn just 18%, according to the first-ever estimates of the gender inequality in global earnings presented in the World Inequality Report 2022 released earlier this week. In a country with perfect equality between women and men, the female labour income share would be equal to 50%. Eastern Europe has the …

Sex ratio: Women-centric policies, programmes of Modi government show results
3 years, 3 months ago

Sex ratio: Women-centric policies, programmes of Modi government show results

Firstpost  

The positive signals emanating from the latest NFHS-5 figures and the achievements that women have made in the recent times will go a long way in encouraging participation of women in national life The latest National Family and Health Survey-5, facts sheets of which were released recently, has indicated a positive growth in the sex ratio of India. This achievement …

Mind The Gap | Wooing the Indian woman voter
3 years, 3 months ago

Mind The Gap | Wooing the Indian woman voter

Hindustan Times  

Everybody loves the woman voter Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement of a ₹1,000 monthly stipend to women above 18 in poll-bound Punjab if his Aam Aadmi Party is elected to power signals the rise and rise of the woman voter. The Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s commitment to field 40% of women candidates in next year’s Uttar Pradesh election is …

India’s women are getting left behind in its vaccination drive
3 years, 9 months ago

India’s women are getting left behind in its vaccination drive

Live Mint  

A worrying gender gap is opening up in India’s vaccination programme, a Mint analysis of official data shows. On account of the high proportion of women healthcare workers and frontline workers, more women were getting vaccinated than men in the early days of the vaccination campaign. The vaccine sex ratio Women form a smaller proportion than men in the adult …

Why India needs a gender-positive recovery
3 years, 11 months ago

Why India needs a gender-positive recovery

India Today  

Gurgaon-based artist Akanksha Sarkar, 41, has given up taking on freelance projects. The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021 estimates that the time it will take to close the global gender gap—in health, education, politics and economics—has increased from 99.5 years to 135.6 years. Home to 650 million women, India has slipped 28 places in the WEF’s Global …

How India fared in Global Gender Gap Report 2021
3 years, 11 months ago

How India fared in Global Gender Gap Report 2021

Live Mint  

The gender gap in India has widened to 62.5%, largely due to women’s inadequate representation in politics, technical and leadership roles, decrease in women’s labour force participation rate, poor healthcare, lagging female to male literacy ratio, income inequality. The report is a measure of gender gap on four parameters: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political …

Pandemic impact: Gender gap in India, world over worsens
3 years, 11 months ago

Pandemic impact: Gender gap in India, world over worsens

Hindustan Times  

India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries, becoming the third-worst performer in South Asia, according to the World Economic Forum report that also says the pandemic has rolled back years of progress towards equality between men and women world over. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2021 released on Wednesday, India …

Pandemic impact: Gender gap in India, world over worsens
3 years, 11 months ago

Pandemic impact: Gender gap in India, world over worsens

Hindustan Times  

India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries, becoming the third-worst performer in South Asia, according to the World Economic Forum report that also says the pandemic has rolled back years of progress towards equality between men and women world over. According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2021 released on Wednesday, India had regressed the highest …

WEF’s gender gap index: India slips 28 places, ranks 140 among 156 countries
3 years, 11 months ago

WEF’s gender gap index: India slips 28 places, ranks 140 among 156 countries

The Hindu  

India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021, becoming the third-worst performer in South Asia. The country had ranked 112th among 153 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index 2020. Noting that the decline also took place on the economic participation and opportunity subindex, albeit to a …

WEF's gender gap index: India slips 28 places, ranks 140 among 156 countries
3 years, 11 months ago

WEF's gender gap index: India slips 28 places, ranks 140 among 156 countries

Hindustan Times  

India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2021, becoming the third-worst performer in South Asia. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} According to the report, India has closed 62.5 per cent of its gender gap till date. Noting that the decline also took place on the economic participation and …

WEF's gender gap index: India slips 28 places, ranks 140 among 156 countries
3 years, 11 months ago

WEF's gender gap index: India slips 28 places, ranks 140 among 156 countries

Hindustan Times  

India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2021, becoming the third-worst performer in South Asia. According to the report, India has closed 62.5 per cent of its gender gap till date. Noting that the decline also took place on the economic participation and opportunity subindex, albeit to …

85% of women in India missed out on raise, promotion because of their gender: LinkedIn study
4 years ago

85% of women in India missed out on raise, promotion because of their gender: LinkedIn study

India Today  

LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, has launched the Opportunity Index 2021 report which has found that around 85% of women in India have missed out on raises and promotions because of their gender. This year’s report dives deep to understand how women perceive opportunities, and how the gender gap is further slowing down career progress for working women in …

India’s women and the workforce
4 years ago

India’s women and the workforce

Hindustan Times  

Why is women’s employment declining in India? The thrust of the predominant explanations is that women are dropping out of paid work or the labour force either because of fear of sexual violence outside the home; or fear of being stigmatised by the community that might see their work as a marker of low status, i.e. Women’s education has increased …

Gender Pay Parity: 37% Indian Working Women Get Paid Less Than Men, Suggests Report
4 years ago

Gender Pay Parity: 37% Indian Working Women Get Paid Less Than Men, Suggests Report

ABP News  

New Delhi: Even as 66 percent of Indians believe that the condition of gender equality has improved compared to their parents' time, working women still face the strongest gender bias across Asia Pacific countries. In this alarming report, one in five working women in India stated that their companies exhibit a 'favourable bias' towards men when compared to the regional …

Pandemic Widened Gender Gap at Workplace as 85% Women Missed Out on Hike, Finds Survey
4 years ago

Pandemic Widened Gender Gap at Workplace as 85% Women Missed Out on Hike, Finds Survey

News 18  

Women have been disproportionately impacted amid the Covid-19 pandemic in India and 85 per cent of those surveyed have missed out on a raise and promotion because of their gender, a new LinkedIn report revealed on Tuesday. Highlighting critical gender gaps and opportunity barriers faced by women and mothers at the workplace in the country, the LinkedIn Opportunity Index 2021 …

How the Coronavirus Pandemic Forced Us to Recognize Gender Inequities
4 years, 2 months ago

How the Coronavirus Pandemic Forced Us to Recognize Gender Inequities

News 18  

The pandemic has completely upended the world as we know it. An ILO report published earlier in December has revealed that challenges of the pandemic and work from home issues have thrown women’s lives off-gear completely. The deadly disruption to our lives in the year gone by must be recognised and used to not only break the mould but also …

India accounts for nearly one third of the world’s missing women: United Nations
4 years, 8 months ago

India accounts for nearly one third of the world’s missing women: United Nations

Live Mint  

India accounts for nearly one third of the world’s 142 million missing women over the past 50 years, according to the State of World Population 2020 report, released on Tuesday by UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. “China and India—together account for about 90% to 95% of the estimated 1.2 million to 1.5 million missing female births …

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