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    • Global Results
    • Performance by Subindex
    • Progress over Time
    • Performance by Region
    • Selected Country Performances
    • Conclusion
    • Box 1: Progress towards gender equality in wages, where do we stand?
    • Box 2: Closing the Gender Gap Country Accelerators
  • The Future of Gender Parity
    • Box 3: Hardwiring gender parity in the future of work
  • Appendix A: Regional Classifications
  • Appendix B: The Global Gender Gap Index: Methodology and Technical Notes
  • Contributors and Acknowledgements
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    • Performance by Subindex
    • Progress over Time
    • Performance by Region
    • Selected Country Performances
    • Conclusion
    • Box 1: Progress towards gender equality in wages, where do we stand?
    • Box 2: Closing the Gender Gap Country Accelerators
  • The Future of Gender Parity
    • Box 3: Hardwiring gender parity in the future of work
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  • Report Home
    • How to Read the Country Profiles
  • The Global Gender Gap Index 2020 Rankings
  • Shareable Infographics
  • Press Release
  • Preface
  • Key Findings
  • The Global Gender Gap Index 2020
    • Global Results
    • Performance by Subindex
    • Progress over Time
    • Performance by Region
    • Selected Country Performances
    • Conclusion
    • Box 1: Progress towards gender equality in wages, where do we stand?
    • Box 2: Closing the Gender Gap Country Accelerators
  • The Future of Gender Parity
    • Box 3: Hardwiring gender parity in the future of work
  • Appendix A: Regional Classifications
  • Appendix B: The Global Gender Gap Index: Methodology and Technical Notes
  • Contributors and Acknowledgements
  • Platform for Shaping the Future of the New Economy and Society Business Partners

The Global Gender Gap Report 2020

Gender parity is fundamental to whether and how economies and societies thrive. Ensuring the full development and appropriate deployment of half of the world’s total talent pool has a vast bearing on the growth, competitiveness and future-readiness of economies and businesses worldwide. The Global Gender Gap Report benchmarks 153 countries on their progress towards gender parity. In addition, this year’s edition studies gender gaps prospects in the professions of the future.

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Key Findings

Globally, the average (population-weighted)
distance completed to parity is at 68.6%,
a further improvement since last edition.
At the current pace, the Global Gender Gap
can potentially be closed in 99.5 years.

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Preface

Klaus Schwab
Founder and Executive Chairman, 
World Economic Forum

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The Global Gender Gap Index 2020

Since 2006 the Global Gender Gap Index has been measuring the extent of gender-based gaps among four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment) and tracking progress towards closing these gaps over time. This year’s edition of the report benchmarks 153 countries and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across and within regional peers.

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The Future of Gender Parity

This chapter goes further in depth
in the roles of the new economy and
examines the gender gaps within them.
The analysis provided here reveals the
set of growing professions which will be
at the forefront of the emerging economy
and cautions that they already exhibit
nascent segregation along gender lines. 

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