– Among the 146 economies covered in the 2024 index, the Health and Survival gender gap has Key findings include the index results in 2024, closed by 96%, the Educational Attainment trend analysis of the trajectory towards parity and gap by 94.9%, the Economic Participation and in-depth examination of historical and emerging Opportunity gap by 60.5%, and the Political patterns through new metrics. [...] there’s been a positive shift of +3.1 percentage Six out of the seven economies in the region Global Gender Gap Report 2024 6 rank below the top 100, and only six in the gaining momentum in Latin America, the Middle region have closed two-thirds of their gender East, and East Asia. [...] Upon comparing the 143 economies included in The score distributions of the 146 economies both the 2024 and 2023 edition, the Economic included in the 2024 edition offer a more detailed Participation and Opportunity subindex shows a picture of the disparities that exist not only between +.6% percentage-point change, while the Political subindexes, but within them. [...] One distinct weakness in gender parity globally comes in the underrepresentation of women in the The five lowest-scoring countries in the Educational workforce, both overall and in senior and managerial Attainment subindex include Chad (66.7%), roles – with parity in senior roles globally reaching Democratic Republic of the Congo (68.3%), Angola only 40.5%, the lowest score across the subindex. [...] (49.9%) surpasses the global average score of 33% Six out of the seven economies in the region rank below the top 100, and their scores are grouped within a 12 percentage-point range between the Sub-Saharan Africa top- and bottom-ranked economies, Bangladesh (1st in the region, 99th overall) and Pakistan (7th in In sixth place, Sub-Saharan Africa edges closer to the region, 146th overall).
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Table of Contents
- Global Gender Gap 2024 1
- Contents 3
- Preface 4
- Key Findings 5
- Benchmarking gender gaps 2024 9
- Country coverage 9
- Global results 10
- Performance by subindex 13
- Progress over time 15
- Performance by region 19
- In-focus country performances Top 10 and most populous 28
- Economic and leadership gaps constraining growth and skewing transitions 35
- Economic and political context 35
- Evolving gender gaps in the global labour market 37
- Gender gaps skewing the technology transition 49
- Call to action 58
- Endnotes 59
- References 61
- Appendix A 63
- Appendix B 64
- Section A Computation and composition of the Global Gender Gap Index 64
- Section B Construction of the index 66
- Section C Indicator definitions and sources 68
- Section D Update to Contextual Indicators 76
- Endnotes 77
- References 78
- Users Guide 79
- Index of Economy Profiles 82
- Contributors and Acknowledgements 375
- Acknowledgements 375
- Collaborations 376
- Centre for the New Economy and Society Business Partners 377
- Partner Institutes 379
