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The Global Gender Gap Index, as part of World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2017, measures progress towards parity between men and women in which of these indicators?

Educational attainment
Health and survival
Inter-generational distribution
Political empowerment
Geographical evenness
Economic opportunity

Select the correct answer using the codes below.

1, 2 and 6 only

1, 2, 4 and 6 only

3, 4 and 5 only

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6

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Explanation:

India was ranked low at 108th position out of 144 in Global Gender Gap Index 2017 released by WEF. India slipped by 21 places compared to 87th rank last year. Countries are ranked based scores on scale ranging from 0 (lowest i.e. imparity) to 1 (highest i.e. parity) based on 4 factors as mentioned in the solution above. Iceland is most gender-equal country with score of 0.878. It is followed by Norway (2 rank), Finland (3), Rwanda (4) and Sweden (5), Nicaragua (6) and Slovenia (7), Ireland (8), New Zealand (9) and the Philippines (10).