Global Gender Gap Index

The index measures gender gap as progress towards parity between men and women in four indicators

♤ Educational attainment,

♤ Health and survival

♤ Economic opportunity and

♤ Political empowerment.

Countries are ranked based scores on scale ranging from 0 (highest imparity) to 1 (least imparity). It is released every year by World Economic Forum since 2006.

Iceland is most gender-equal country with score of 0.878. It is followed by Norway (2nd rank), Finland (3), Rwanda (4) Sweden (5), Nicaragua (6), Slovenia (7), Ireland (8), New Zealand (9) and

the Philippines (10).

Overall 68% of global gender gap has been closed, deterioration is seen compared to 2016 when gap closed was 68.3%. At current rate of progress, global gender gap will take 100 years to bridge, compared to 83 last year. The case is worse in terms of workplace gender divide as it will take 217 years to close.