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Bangladesh has topped the list of gender-neutral countries in South Asia bringing down gender gap the most, the World Economic Forum said in its latest report.
It is ahead of Nepal (101st) and Sri Lanka (102nd), and some 60 places ahead of India (112th), the WEF said in its report titled 'Global Gender Gap Report 2020'.
Bangladesh ranked 50th on the global list of 153 countries closing 72.6 per cent of its overall gender gap, the report said.
According to the report, Bangladesh is the only country in the world where women have had a longer tenure than men at the helm of the state over the past 50 years.
The top-ranked five gender-neutral countries in the world are respectively: Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Nicaragua.
The bottom-ranked five such countries are Yemen, Pakistan, Syria, Demo Rep and Congo.
Bangladesh had the 91st position in WEF's 2006 report.