This report was published in June 2024 by the World Economic Forum based in Switzerland. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006; this is the 18th edition of the report. The report ranks 146 countries on the Global Gender Gap Index which is a scale of 0 to 100 – a score of 100 would represent complete gender parity. It studies four areas: ‘Economic Participation and Opportunity’, ‘Educational Attainment’, ‘Health and Survival’, and ‘Political Empowerment’. The global gender gap score in 2024 stands at 68.5 per cent closed. Compared to the score in 2023, the global gender gap for 146 countries has been closed by a 0.1 percentage point. The report states that it will take 134 years to achieve full gender parity.This 385-page document is divided into 2 chapters: Benchmarking gender gaps, 2024 (Chapter 1); Economic and leadership gaps: constraining growth and skewing transitions (Chapter 2).
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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
