Covid & gender pandemic’s hit on equality needs serious response
The World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report 2022 confirms what we know from experience. Covid may have put gender parity back by a generation, and South Asia is the worst-off. At current rates of progress, it will take nearly 200 years to achieve any meaningful equality between women and men. India ranks 135th out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity. It has moved up five places from last year, improved on the economic opportunity and participation front as the share of women legislators, senior officials and managers increased from 14.6% to 17.6%, and the share of women as professional and technical workers has grown. While India’s education enrolment has been impressive, its health and survival record are at rock-bottom. With a female population of 662 million, India’s situation has overwhelming impact on the global picture. India has had a gender budget for years, to goad fiscal policy towards equality – but genuine parity is a distant horizon.This gap exists because of centuries of bone-deep social and material bias against women, so it will not narrow by itself. It takes systematic effort to address these inequalities, and the gender perspective has to be actively incorporated into policy. Families have to be transformed, and states, employers and other institutions must identify and fix patterns that hold back women from participating and flourishing.
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