Gender gap, 132 years to achieve equality between men and women

They are needed 132 years to delete the gender gap, that is, to achieve equality between men and women in the world. This is if the current growth indices remain. The pandemic has worsened a situation that was not already thriving. The months of the lockdown, the consequences of the pandemic on the world of work and the weak economic recovery have pushed gender equality back by a generation. Before 2020, the World Economic Forum estimated the time for gender equality to be 100 years. The data is in the Global Gender Gap Report.

146 economies are considered and only one in five has bridged the gender gap by at least 1% in the last year. At the top of the standings, for the 13th consecutive year, there is Iceland: it is the country with the smallest gender gap. Here is the greatest gender equality in the world. Followed by Finland, Norway, New Zealand and Sweden. Then Rwanda, Nicaragua, Namibia, Ireland and Germany. The United States is in position 27. At the bottom of the ranking Afghanistan, last, preceded by Pakistan, Congo and Iran.

Italy remains a party in 63rd place, among the last of the European countries with Romania, Cyprus and Greece. Our country is poorly placed for women’s participation and economic opportunity. Spain is 17th, France 15th. Italy comes after Uganda and Zambia, before Tanzania. Overall, Europe has the second highest level of gender parity, has 76.6% and follows only North America. The old continent globally has a 60-year wait to bridge the gap.

For all the wait will be long and women find themselves in particular difficulties. Explains Saadia Zahidi, director general of the World Economic Forum: «The crisis in the cost of living is affecting women disproportionately, after the shock with the loss of jobs during the pandemic and the continuing inadequacy of assistance infrastructures. Faced with a weak recovery, the government and businesses must make two sets of efforts: targeted policies to support the return of women to the workforce and the development of female talents in the industries of the future ”.

Globally, it will take 155 years to close the gender gap in political emancipation and 151 for that on economic participation. The gap in terms of health and survival it fell by 95.8%, the level of education by 94.4%. 29 countries have achieved full parity in academic achievement, but it will take another 22 years to bridge the gap.

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