Gender parity is fundamental to whether and how economies and societies thrive. Ensuring the full development and appropriate deployment of half of the world’s total talent pool has a vast bearing on the growth,competitiveness and future-readiness of economies and businesses worldwide. The Global Gender Gap Report benchmarks 149 countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity,Educational Attainment,Health and Survival,and Political Empowerment. In addition,this year’s edition studies skills gender gaps related to Artificial Intelligence (AI).

 

This report finds that, the most gender-equal country to date is Iceland. It has closed over 85% of its overall gender gap. Also,across the four subindexes,on average,the largest gender disparity is on Political Empowerment,which today maintains a gap of 77.1%. The Economic Participation and Opportunity gap is the second-largest at 41.9%,while the Educational Attainment and Health and Survival gaps are significantly lower at 4.4% and 4.6%,respectively. Among them,on average,only the Economic Participation and Opportunity gap has slightly reduced since last year.