India has performed inadequately in uprooting gender based variations, positioning 114 out of 142 nations in World Economic Forum’s 2014 gender gap index, scoring beneath normal on parameters like educational attainment, economic participation and wellbeing and survival.
India slipped 13 spots from its last year’s positioning of 101 on the Gender Gap Index by the World Economic Forum.
India is a part of the 20 most noticeably bad performing nations on the labour force Investment, literacy rate, evaluated earned pay.
Then again, India is among the main 20 Best- performing nations on the political strengthening subindex.
The list was initially presented by the World Economic Forum in 2006 as a schema for catching the greatness of gender-based abberations and keeping tabs on their development.
The file benchmarks national gender gaps on financial, political, health and education criteria.
