India's Gender Inequality Index (GII) worsened between 2008 and 2011

Full Story: The Times of India 3 November 2011

Times of India reprots that:

India's abysmal gender inequality statistics seem to have taken a turn for the worse. New data shows the country's Gender Inequality Index (GII) worsened between 2008 and 2011, and India now ranks 129 out of 146 countries on the GII, better only than Afghanistan in south Asia.

India's decline is accounted for by a fall in its female labour force participation rate and a worsening of its adolescent fertility rate, claims a report attributed to Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, who helped release the 2011 UNDP Human Development Report in New Delhi on Wednesday.

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