Global Gender Gap Report 2021

Global Gender Gap Report 2021

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-I – Society

In news

• Global Gender Gap Report 2021 was released recently.
• Released by: World Economic Forum

Key takeaways

• India has fallen 28 places 
• It is now one of the worst performers in South Asia, 
• It is ranked below neighbouring countries – Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
• India’s rank: 140 among 156 countries.
• South Asia incidentally is one of the worst performing regions, followed only by the Middle East and northern Africa.
• Overall, many countries have fared worse in this year’s rankings compared to last year’s, on account of economic performance.
• On its current trajectory, it will now take 135.6 years to close the gender gap worldwide.
• Women represent only 26.1% of some 35,500 parliament seats and just 22.6% of over 3,400 ministers worldwide
• In 81 countries, there has never been a woman head of state, as of January 15, 2021.