Global Gender Gap Report

According to the “2016 Global Gender Gap Report”, India ranked 87th in terms of gender equality, out of 144 countries.

• When it comes to wage equality, India stood at 103rd spot.

Global Gender Gap Report:-

The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006 by the World Economic Forum. The 2016 report covers 144 major and emerging economies. The Global Gender Gap Index is an index designed to measure gender equality.

• The Global Gender Gap ranking released annually by World Economic Forum (WEF) quantifies disparities in health, politics, education and employment among women and men.
• Through the Global Gender Gap Report, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress over time, with a specific focus on the relative gaps between women and men across four key areas:

• Health, Education, Economy and Politics.
• The 2016 Report covers 144 countries.

The report examines four overall areas of inequality between men and women in 144 economies around the globe, over 94% of the world’s population:

• Economic participation and opportunity – 
• outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment
• Educational attainment – 
• outcomes on access to basic and higher level education
• Political empowerment – 
• outcomes on representation in decision-making structures
• Health and survival – 
• outcomes on life expectancy and sex ratio. 
• In this case parity is not assumed, there are assumed to be less female births than male (944 female for every 1,000 males), and men are assumed to die younger. 
• Provided that women live at least six percent longer than men parity is assumed, if it is less than six percent it counts as a gender gap.