The COVID-19 pandemic has set back progress to close gender gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) by a decade. According to the 2021 World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Repor...
Developing and deploying one-half of the world’s available talent has a huge bearing on the growth, competitiveness and future-readiness of economies and businesses worldwide.
In the decade leading up to 2020, we saw significant, albeit slow, progress towards making education and work more equitable and inclusive.
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed much about the nature of work in the world – and the important yet undervalued role of women in it.
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reversed progress made towards achieving gender parity. At current trajectories, it will take 135.6 years to close the gender gap worldwide, predic...
This article was first published in May 2021 and updated in July 2022.
• Panama women, like women around the world, have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
For decades, the forces that drive our global dependence on single-use plastics and our inability to keep plastic waste out of the environment have hit women and marginalized communities ...
Progress towards reaching gender parity has stopped - and in some cases reversed - due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021.
Iceland is the world’s best country for gender equality, topping a World Economic Forum index for the 12th year in a row.
The 15th edition of the Global Gender Gap Report has been released one year after COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic. Its index continues to benchmark the evolution of gender-bas...
Last year’s Global Gender Gap report offered insights into what drives the world’s gender pay gap. Among other factors, it showed the impact of the motherhood wage penalty and the fatherh...
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a terrible toll on progress towards gender equality. Many of the gains of recent years have been reversed. The length of time until women and men are truly...
