World Economic Forum gender gap index: India slips 28 ranks

Labour force participation rate fell from 24.8 per cent to 22.3 per cent in 2021. Representation pic

India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2021, becoming the third-worst performer in South Asia. Most of the decline occurred on the political empowerment subindex, with the number of women ministers dropping to 9.1 per cent in 2021 from 23.1 per cent in 2019.

"The share of women in professional and technical roles declined further to 29.2 per cent. The share of women in senior and managerial positions also remains low: only 14.6 per cent of these positions are held by women and there are only 8.9 per cent firms with female top managers," it said.

Further, the estimated earned income of women in India is only one-fifth of men's, which puts the country among the bottom 10 globally on this indicator, it said. Discrimination against women is also reflected in the health and survival subindex statistics where it ranks among the bottom five countries.

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India's global rank in 2020

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