Dec 20, 2024 · Gender equality is at the very heart of human rights and United Nations values. Gender-based discrimination is prohibited under almost every human rights treaty. Despite much progress made in securing women’s rights globally, millions of women and girls continue to experience discrimination and violence, being denied of their equality ...

Jun 11, 2024 · The Global Gender Gap Index 2024 benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time …

Mar 3, 2022 · Gender equality has suffered since the pandemic began. It will now take an estimated 135.6 years to close the worldwide gender gap between men and women. However, progress is being made in areas including science and politics. Improving paternity policies and representation of women will help.

Jun 27, 2024 · While the speed of progress is “deeply insufficient to achieve gender equality by 2030”, it is achievable, the report says, if government and business “shift both resources and mindsets towards a new paradigm of economic thinking, where gender parity is embraced as a condition for equitable and sustainable growth”.

About gender equality and the human rights of women and LGBTI persons. Gender equality is at the very heart of human rights and United Nations values. Equality and non-discrimination are fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter, adopted by world leaders in 1945.

Dec 18, 2018 · Finland has the fourth greatest gender equality of any nation, with 82% of its overall gap closed. It is the only top-ranked Nordic nation to fully close the gender gap in educational attainment. The nation played a pioneering role in bringing about gender equality, becoming the second country to grant women the right to vote and, in 1906, was ...

Mar 8, 2019 · At the current rate of progress, it will take another 108 years to reach gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s most recent Global Gender Gap report. Across the 106 countries covered since the first edition of the report, the biggest gaps to close are in the economic and political empowerment dimensions, which will take 202 ...

Jul 3, 2024 · The Generation Equality Forum took place in Mexico City in March and in Paris from 30 June – 2 July 2021. The Forum launched a 5-year action journey to achieve irreversible progress towards gender equality, founded on a series of concrete, ambitious and transformative actions, including $40 Billion in financial commitme

Sep 4, 2018 · Asian economies that recognize the contribution gender equality makes to their economic success could lead the way in shrinking the gap further. Since 2006, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index has raised awareness of gender disparities that exist around the world. The latest report highlights the areas of outstanding ...

Jun 20, 2023 · The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps …