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Global Gender Gap report 2024

1 Jun 2024

This report was published in June 2024 by the World Economic Forum based in Switzerland. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006; this is the 18th edition of the report. The report ranks 146 countries on the Global Gender Gap Index which is a scale of 0 to 100 – a score of 100 would represent complete gender parity. It studies four areas: ‘Economic Participation and Opportunity’, ‘Educational Attainment’, ‘Health and Survival’, and ‘Political Empowerment’. The global gender gap score in 2024 stands at 68.5 per cent closed. Compared to the score in 2023, the global gender gap for 146 countries has been closed by a 0.1 percentage point. The report states that it will take 134 years to achieve full gender parity.This 385-page document is divided into 2 chapters: Benchmarking gender gaps, 2024 (Chapter 1); Economic and leadership gaps: constraining growth and skewing transitions (Chapter 2).
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Authors

World Economic Forum, Switzerland

Pages
385
Published in
India
Rights
World Economic Forum, Switzerland

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