19 DECEMBER2024W MAN LEADERGLOBAL W MAN LEADERGLOBAL most remarkable vicinities where improvement has been observed is political participation sector which is known to have a major gap between men and women. Despite the statement, the report also states highlights that globally, the top-level political positions still evade females to handle the conduct, indicating towards persistent systemic barriers.REPORT ELUCIDATIONThis year spotlighted more than 60 national elections scheduled worldwide, holding considerable significance. There's a sizeable hope for increased political representation of women since the largest population in history is ready to vote. This could aid in closing gender gap. Witnessing a positive trend, the labor-force participation in the economic front with global parity, has reached 65.7 percent, observing a rise from the pandemic low of 62.3 percent.Additionally, there's a significant rise of women's representation in the tech sphere i.e., Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineering. Beholding the doubled increased of the number of women in AI engineering roles since 2016, the world can notice a growing recognition of the diverse perspectives' importance in shaping technological advancements.Despite the progress, in fields like STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathe-matics) and AI continue to have underrepresen-tation of women that demands concerted efforts to bridge this gap.CONCLUSIONWEF Global Gender Gap index has placed countries as per their ranking where India is at the 129th Place, slipping two places. In addition, Iceland has maintained its place at the top of the index. India ranks after Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan amongst the South Asian neighbours. However, it is leading from Pakistan that ranks at 145th position, slipping three places. Lastly, the last position has been given to Sudan i.e., 146th.By understanding the rankings and figuring out the reason behind the slow progress of the last ranked countries. Following proper majors and working on those reasons can result in the advancement of the global economy.
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