SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 13 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 19 of 100

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The Global Gender Gap Report primarily measures disparities between genders in which key areas?

(a)Politics, Economy, Health, Education
(b)Income, Wealth, Land, Technology
(c)Crime, Law, Justice, Security
(d)Environment, Climate, Water, Food

Answer

Why

Correct — A. The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index measures the gap between women and men on four subindexes:

Economic Participation and Opportunity
Educational Attainment
Health and Survival
Political Empowerment

Those are the option's Economy, Education, Health and Politics → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Income, Wealth, Land, Technology — Income feeds the economic subindex through estimated earned income, but wealth, land and technology are not subindexes of the index.
(c)
Crime, Law, Justice, Security — Crime, law and security are not scored. The four subindexes are economic participation, education, health and political empowerment.
(d)
Environment, Climate, Water, Food — Environment and climate fall outside the index. The WEF measures gender gaps in economy, education, health and politics, not access to water or food.

Concept

The Global Gender Gap Report has been published by the World Economic Forum since 2006.

It scores the gap between women and men, not their absolute levels: a country with low schooling overall can still score well on education parity.

Scores run from 0 to 1, where 1 means full parity. Recent editions also state them as the percentage of the gap closed.

Do not confuse it with UNDP's Gender Inequality Index, which uses reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market.

Key facts

Publisher: World Economic Forum, first edition 2006.
Four subindexes: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, Political Empowerment.
A score of 1 means parity between women and men.
In the 2025 edition India ranked 131st of 148 economies.

Study next

UNDP's Gender Development Index and Gender Inequality IndexOther WEF indices, such as the Energy Transition Index

Common traps

Confusing the WEF's Gender Gap Index with UNDP's Gender Inequality Index, which uses reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market.
Reading the index as a measure of women's absolute welfare: it scores the gap relative to men.

The publisher is tested through another WEF index at 14 Sep 2025, 09:00, GA Q.20 (keyed: the World Economic Forum releases the Global Energy Transition Index 2025).

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