The Global Gender Gap Report is published by the World Economic Forum that is an index designed to measure gender equality.
The Global Gender Gap Report benchmarks 144 countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions:
Where does India Stand?
India has slipped 21 places on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap index 2017 to a lowly108th position out of 144 countries. At the 108th place, India is behind its neighbors China and Bangladesh.
India got a score of 0.669, which up from 0.601 in 2006, but down from 0.683 in 2016.
