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- GS-1: Social empowerment – role of women
- GS-2: Mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.
In News: The National Statistical Office operating under Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has recently released the Women and Men in India report. The report consolidates the crucial socio-economic indicators that portray gender situation in the country.
Gender equality has been increasingly recognized as being essential to the process of sustainable development and the formulation of effective national development policies and programmes. Gender statistics and indicators are important tools for promoting gender equality and implementing a gender mainstreaming approach throughout the entire policy cycle.
The need of Gender equality also reverberates through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, where gender issues are duly addressed in different Goals. Goal 5 of the SDGs is specifically dedicated for achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls. Gender statistics provide the required data for tracking the attainments.
A. Population and Related StatisticsNote: Global Gender Gap Report 2021
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