Opinion | Steadfast Progress Amid Setbacks: How India’s Women Are Doing, According To WEF Global Gender Gap Index 2024

Over the past decade, India has shown steady improvement in women’s economic participation, with female labour force participation rising from 23.3% in 2017-18 to 37% in 2022-23.

It’s that time of the year again when the world talks about its report card on gender equality, and no surprise that gender equality, according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) Gender Gap Report 2024, is still 134 years away. Let that timeframe sink in. A century and three decades ago, the world was an entirely different place – an era devoid of modern industrial machinery, heavily reliant on agriculture, and predominantly shaped by the prevailing system of