Global Gender Gap Index 2018

India ranked 108/144 countries (Same as last year)
Index was released as part of World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2018.
Iceland is ranked 1.
The index measures gender gap as progress towards parity between men and women in four indicators
1. Educational attainment,
2. Health and survival,
3. Economic opportunity and
4. 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.