![]() ![]() The index estimates that on its current trajectory, it will take another 14.2 years to completely close this gap. However, the ‘last mile’ of progress is proceeding slowly. In Educational Attainment, 95% of this gender gap has been closed globally, with 37 countries already at parity. Gender gaps in Educational Attainment and Health and Survival are nearly closed.Globally, the economic gender gap may thus be between 1% and 4% wider than reported. Projections for a select number of countries show that gender gaps in labour force participation are wider since the outbreak of the pandemic. ![]() Additionally, the data available for the 2021 edition of the report does not yet fully reflect the impact of the pandemic. On the other hand, overall income disparities are still only part-way towards being bridged and there is a persistent lack of women in leadership positions, with women representing just 27% of all manager positions. On one hand, the proportion of women among skilled professionals continues to increase, as does progress towards wage equality, albeit at a slower pace. The slow progress seen in closing the Economic Participation and Opportunity gap is the result of two opposing trends.The gap has seen marginal improvement since the 2020 edition of the report and as a result we estimate that it will take another 267.6 years to close. According to this year’s index results 58% of this gap has been closed so far. The gender gap in Economic Participation and Opportunity remains the second-largest of the four key gaps tracked by the index.Globally, since the previous edition of the report, there are more women in parliaments, and two countries have elected their first female prime minister (Togo in 2020 and Belgium in 2019). Widening gender gaps in Political Participation have been driven by negative trends in some large countries which have counterbalanced progress in another 98 smaller countries.At the current rate of progress, the World Economic Forum estimates that it will take 145.5 years to attain gender parity in politics. In 81 countries, there has never been a woman head of state, as of 15th January 2021. Across the 156 countries covered by the index, women represent only 26.1% of some 35,500 parliament seats and just 22.6% of over 3,400 ministers worldwide. The gender gap in Political Empowerment remains the largest of the four gaps tracked, with only 22% closed to date, having further widened since the 2020 edition of the report by 2.4 percentage points.On its current trajectory, it will now take 135.6 years to close the gender gap worldwide. These figures are mainly driven by a decline in the performance of large countries. Globally, the average distance completed to parity is at 68%, a step back compared to 2020 (-0.6 percentage points).
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