Slow pace of progress, AI displacement: Decoding trends behind India’s downfall in Global Gender Gap rankings?

India recently slipped 3 spots to rank as the 131st out of 148 countries assessed in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2025. Despite India’s marginal improvement in its gender parity score from 64.1% to 64.4% which represents the percentage of the gender gap closed by the economy. India continues to fall behind in the rankings.

The report’s authors attribute India’s fall in the rankings to the nation’s relatively slow-paced performance in comparison to other economies.