India's ranked improved to 113 out of 190 countries in the World Bank’s Women, Business and Law index, according to the 10th edition of Women, Business, and the Law (WBL) 2024 report released by the World Bank Group.
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India's ranked improved to 113 out of 190 countries in the World Bank’s Women, Business and Law index, according to the 10th edition of Women, Business, and the Law (WBL) 2024 report released by the World Bank Group. The index measures the gender gap for women in the workplace. Over the years, India’s score has remained constant at 74.4%, whereas a total of 14 countries around the world, including Denmark, Canada, and Finland, score a perfect 100 in the legal framework score. Some of the less developed countries like Ethiopia, Namibia, and even Burundi have better scores than India. Only 54.2% of the supportive frameworks needed were established in the country, the report revealed, although the global weightage in this regard was much lower at 39.5%. Furthermore, no economy has achieved complete legal equality for women. Women spend an average of 2.4 more hours a day on unpaid care work than men—much of it on the care of children.
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