- India ranked 108/144 countries
- Index was released as part of World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2017.
- Iceland is ranked 1.
- The index measures gender gap as progress towards parity between men and women in four indicators
- Educational attainment,
- Health and survival,
- Economic opportunity and
- Political empowerment.
- Countries are ranked based scores on scale ranging from 0 (lowest i.e. imparity) to 1 (highest i.e. parity).
- It is released every year by WEF since 2006.