Mobility

workplace

Pay

Marriage

Parenthood

Entrepreneurship

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Pensions

100 representing the highest possible score

Global pace of reforms towards equal treatment of women under the law has reached a 20-year low.

global average score = 77.1 in 2022

2.4 billion women of working age still do not have the same rights as men.

Only 14 countries( all high income economies) have laws that give women the same rights as men.

Only 34 gender-related legal reforms were recorded across 18 countries in 2022, the lowest number since 2001

At the current pace of reform, it would take at least 50 years on average and another 1,549 reforms to reach substantial legal gender equality everywhere in the areas measured by the report

Gender parity reforms reached a peak in the first 9 years of the 2000s but have slowed down since 2009.

Sub-Saharan Africa made significant progress last year, accounting for over half of all reforms worldwide in 2022 and with seven economies enacting 18 positive legal changes.

Closing the gender employment gap could raise long-term GDP per capita by nearly 20% on average across countries and result in global economic gains of $5-6 trillion.

Index score : 74.4

Overall score for India is higher than South Asian region ( 63.7)