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1. Report Shows Women are 132 Years Away from Gender Equality
The Global Gender Gap Index, which benchmarks gender parity across four dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival and Political Empowerment), has been released for 2022 by the World Economic Forum.
The report covers 146 countries and provides a basis for cross-country analysis, with a subset of 102 countries represented in every edition of the index since 2006, providing a sample for time series analysis. The results show that globally, the gender parity score rose from 67.9% in 2021 to 68.1% in 2022, but at the current rate of progress, it will take 132 years to completely close the global gender gap.
