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Good news on the gender front continues to elude India with the country slipping further down from 101st rank last year to 114th out of 142 countries in the Gender Gap Index 2014, says a report by the World Economic Forum.
“This is mainly down to deterioration in economic participation and opportunity, as well as educational attainment,” says the report.
In economic terms, India ranks 134th overall, with low scores in terms of labour force participation, wage equality and estimated earned income. Equality in terms of health and survival, too, remains a problem, where it ranks 141 out of 142 only behind Armenia. As regards, the sex ratio, India is at a poor 134th position.
Consolation The only silver lining is the country remains a role model in terms of political empowerment, in which it ranks 15th India has 111 women in Parliament, with 107 women in Ministerial positions.
This is the ninth year of the index, introduced by WEF in 2006. WEF said that in nine years, the world has seen only a small improvement in equality for women in the workplace, with the gender gap for economic participation and opportunity at 60 per cent worldwide having closed by only 4 per cent from 56 per cent in 2006.
“…It will take 81 years for the world to close this gap completely,” said the WEF report.
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