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New Delhi: India ranks 135th in terms of gender equality. The World Economic Forum released its 2022 Gender Equality Gap report in Geneva. According to the report, Iceland consistently ranks first in the world for gender equality. Finland, Norway, New Zealand and Sweden are next. India has got 135th place in this. Only about 11 countries feature in the list after India. Below India are Afghanistan, Pakistan, Congo, Iran and Chad. The World Economic Forum has said that the coronavirus pandemic has set India’s gender equality back a generation, and that a weak recovery will make India worse off globally. One reason is the declining share of years that women have served as heads of state over the past 50 years.