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The Suwałki Gap is a barely 100-kilometre-long stretch of land between Russia’s ally Belarus and Kaliningrad – an isolated western pocket of Russia well removed from the rest of the country. Despite its size, the “gap” came into global focus when Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea ramped up geopolitical tensions in Europe.
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 since its inception.
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 over time since its inception in 2006.
On average, an individual from the top 10% will earn $122,100, but an individual from the bottom half will earn just $3,920. And, when it comes to wealth (valuable assets and items over and above income), the gap is even wider. The poorest half of the global population owns just 2% of the global total, while the richest 10% own 76% of all wealth.
Global Gender Gap Report 2022. Another generation of women will have to wait for gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt, closing the global gender gap has increased by a generation from 99.5 years to 135.6 years.
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. There is still a huge amount of work to do to achieve gender equality around the world.
Racial achievement gaps in the United States are narrowing, a Stanford University data project shows. But progress has been slow and unsteady – and gaps are still large across much of the country. COVID-19 could widen existing inequalities in education. The World Economic Forum will be exploring the issues around growing income inequality as ...
1. Reduce income inequalities between top and bottom earners. Every nation should agree to aim for a situation where the top 10% do not earn more than the bottom 40%. Without this concrete end point, we lack the direction because we do not know the destination. 2. Measure inequality to monitor progress on SDGs.
The advancement of women at work is good for everyone – potentially increasing global GDP by 20%, according to the World Bank. The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2024 shows progress for women has slowed overall, but employment rates are up. The Economic Participation and Opportunity gap has closed by 17 years since the last ...
As we enter the fourth wave of globalization, driven by the digital revolution, there is renewed debate over whether it is a beneficial force: powering economic growth, and allowing the spread of ideas to improve people’s lives; or whether it erodes communities, and widens the gap between the elites and the rest of the world.