Which country has the worst gender wealth gap, as per the 2022 WTW Global Gender Wealth Equity report?
- A. India
- B. South Africa
- C. Sri Lanka
- D. Japan
Correct Answer: A. India
As per the 2022 WTW Global Gender Wealth Equity report, women will have 74 percent of the wealth accumulate by men, when they retire. In Asia-Pacific (APAC), India had the worst gender wealth gap (64 percent), more than the global average. A major factor for this is India’s gender pay gap for professional and technical roles. Another factor is that opportunities for women in leadership positions are limited, with only 3 percent of women in the workforce in senior positions.
Correct Answer: B. 30 September
Every year on September 30, the world observe International Translation Day in honor of Saint Jerome, the Bible translator. In a world as diverse as ours, where language can be a barrier, translation emerges as a vital bridge facilitating understanding and communication among people of different tongues.
Correct Answer: B. Israel
Israel has signed a free trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates, its first big trade pact with an Arab state. The agreement, which aimed at boosting trade between the two Middle Eastern nations, would encourage more Israeli companies to set up offices in the UAE, particularly in Dubai.
Correct Answer: C. USA
NASA’s ‘Oceans Melting Greenland airborne mission’ has found that Greenland’s glaciers that empty into the ocean, such as Apusiaajik Glacier, are at greater risk of rapid ice loss. It revealed that ice loss from Greenland’s ice sheet contributes more to the global rise of the oceans than any other single source. If all of Greenland’s ice sheets were to melt, global sea levels would rise by about 24 feet (7.4 meters).
Correct Answer: C. India
India on 23 August 2023 became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon`s south pole, a historic triumph for the world`s most populous nation and its ambitious, cut-price space programme. The unmanned Chandrayaan-3, which means Mooneraft in Sanskrit, touch down at 6:04 pm India time (1234 GMT) as mission control technicians cheer wildly and embraced their colleagues.
Correct Answer: B. Pratibha Patil
Correct Answer: B. Exo-planet
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have validated the discovery of an exo-planet interior to the habitable zone of the dwarf star LHS 475. Named LHS 475b, this planet is almost 99.1% the size of Earth, and has an orbital period of 2.03 days. LHS 475 hosts at least one planet, which was previously classified as a planet candidate by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.