- Global gender gap sees only a slight improvement and will still take five generations to close at current progress.
- Improvement in political participation of women has the most impact as it is where the gap is largest, with top-level positions remaining largely inaccessible for women globally.
- With over 60 national elections in 2024 and the largest global population in history set to vote, women's political representation and the overall gender gap could improve.
- Parity in global labour-force participation is recovering, reaching 65.7%, up from a pandemic low of 62.3%.
- Women's representation in AI engineering has doubled since 2016, but significant underrepresentation in STEM fields and AI remain.
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