Question 3: What is India’s rank in the Global Gender Gap Index 2022?

A) 131

B) 127

C) 121

D) 135

Answer: 135

India is the lowest-performing nation in the world in the “health and survival” sub-index, where it ranks 135 out of a total of 146 nations. 

The Global Gender Gap Index measures gender parity in four important areas, or sub-indices, including political empowerment, health and survival, educational achievement, and economic involvement and opportunity.

It calculates scores on a scale of 0 to 100, which represents the amount of progress made toward parity or the proportion of the gender gap that has been bridged.

According to the Global Gender Report 2022, which also contains the Gender Gap Index, it will now take 132 years to achieve gender parity, with the gap having reduced by 68.1% but only by four years since 2021.

However, given that the gender gap was predicted to shrink within a century based on patterns before 2020, this does not make up for the generational loss between 2020 and 2021.

India ranks 146 in health and survival, 143 in economic participation and opportunity, 107 in educational attainment and 48th in political empowerment. Gender parity is predicted to be achieved in South Asia in 197 years, which is the region that will take the longest.

The top 10 economies eradicated at least 80% of their gender disparities, with Iceland dominating the world ranking (90.8%) even though no nation attained full gender parity. Iceland was the only economy to have reduced its gender gap by more than 90%.

Other Nordic nations including Finland (86%, second), Norway (84.5%, third), and Sweden (82.2%, fifth) round out the top five, with Germany (80.1%) and Ireland (80.4%) taking ninth and tenth place in Europe, respectively.

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