As many reports have noted during the last few years, achieving gender equality between men and women can make a real difference to economic prosperity across the world.
One of the most important studies in this area is the Global Gender Gap Index from the World Economic Forum which annually benchmarks 156 countries across four key dimensions (economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment) and tracks progress towards closing these gaps over time.
Whilst it would be natural to expect this gap to close every year, the 2022 report suggest that there has been slowing down in the achievement of equality globally and this has been driven largely by a decline in large countries. This means that, given this data, it will take over 135 years to close the gender gap worldwide.
