Gender gap in India needs to be narrowed down
India has improved its overall ranking basically due to improvement in better than average performance in political empowerment space. In terms of economic participation and opportunity India has been ranked 125th.
THERE ARE many gender issues in India that reflect the domination of men, and women are graded otherwise. All household responsibilities are borne by women. Men just bring in money and the rest lies with women. In poor families, women also work and do the household chores. There are child marriages of girls, who are married to much older men. There is also child labour, where, apart from boys, girls are also forced to work, essentially as domestic servants. These rankings are based on four parameters: economic participation and opportunity, education attainment, political empowerment and health and survival. Norway which has replaced Sweden at the first position is followed by Finland, Sweden, Iceland, New Zealand, Philippines, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, and Latvia in the top ten. The Nordic countries have occupied all the four top positions in the list. India has improved its overall ranking basically due to improvement in better than average performance in political empowerment space. In terms of economic participation and opportunity India has been ranked 125th. In terms of political empowerment, it is placed at 25th rank, in terms of educational attainment at 116th rank, and in terms of health and survival, it is placed at 128th position. In its overall ranking, India is placed lowest among the four BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries. China has jumped to 17 places to 57th rank. Russia and Brazil are placed at the 42nd and 73rd positions respectively. India (113), Iran (116), Nepal (120) and Pakistan (127) continue to hold some of the lowest positions in the Asian rankings, but on an average all the four countries post gains relative to their own performances in 2006 and 2007, signifying a positive trend. Let us hope that with political will and our support, the widening gap between men and women in India will be narrowed down in time to come. Let us spell woman as “wymon” so that it does not appear that man dominates woman.
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