Which of the following gives 'Global Gender Gap Index' ranking to the countries of the world?

The correct answer is A) World Economic Forum. The Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI) has been published by the WEF since 2006. It benchmarks countries on the gap between men and women across four sub-indices: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment. Each country gets a score from 0 (inequality) to 1 (parity), and the ranking is released annually.

• B) UN Human Rights Council: It works on human rights through mechanisms like the Universal Periodic Review. It does not rank countries on gender gaps.
• C) UN Women: This UN entity for gender equality was created in 2010 by merging four earlier bodies. It runs programmes and publishes reports such as Progress of the World's Women, but the GGGI is not its product.
• D) World Health Organization: It is the UN's health agency, set up under a 1946 constitution that came into force in 1948. Its data feeds into the health sub-index, but it does not produce the composite ranking.

For Mains, the GGGI links to GS-I and GS-II questions on women's workforce participation, political representation and the gap between formal equality and actual outcomes. India's position has shifted over the years, so check the latest edition rather than memorising a rank.

Trap: Aspirants pick UN Women because the name sounds like the obvious gender body. Index rankings usually come from research or economic bodies, not from the agency that works on the issue.