Global Gender Gap, 2024
✅ Released by the World Economic Forum on 12 June, 2024
✅ Top 5 Countries: Iceland (1st) was followed by Finland (2nd), Norway (3rd), New Zealand (4th) and Sweden (5th)🏆.
✅ Globally, Sudan was ranked last on the index of 146 countries.
✅ India has slipped two places to the 129th position (127th last year).
✅ Within South Asia, India ranked 5th after Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan, with Pakistan ranked last (145th).
✅ Despite the drop, India showed strong gender parity in secondary education enrollment and political empowerment, securing the 10th position for the number of years with female/male 👩‍💼👨‍💼 heads of state in the last 50 years.
✅ However, India’s overall gender gap closure stands at 64.1 per cent in 2024, a slight decline from 64.2 per cent last year.

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The ongoing severe heat wave in many parts of India has triggered fresh discussions on including heatwave as a notified disaster under the Disaster Management (DM) Act, 2005.

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