The concept of gender parity – in the healthcare industry and in Corporate America – began receiving some long-overdue attention earlier this year with a humorous, but also embarrassing ...

India has ranked 131 out of 148 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2025, slipping two places from its position last year. With a parity score of just 64.1 per cent ...

This is not merely a gender issue but one aligned with economic ambition. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that gender parity in employment could add $770 billion to India’s GDP by 2025.

The report, which was published in June, looked at gender parity across 146 countries, per the World Economic Forum, or WEF. The study found that the global gender gap has closed by 68.4% — up ...

Gender parity goal imperiled None of this is to say that there hasn’t been real progress in narrowing the gender gap since 2005. “Across all [senior] roles, women held less than 8% of seats as ...