Gender

WHAT'S NEXT?: Achieving global gender parity will take many decades yet. Read on to understand the trends, challenges and efforts to advance parity at a faster pace.

• [New] By 2066, Hong Kong's men are expected to live for 87.1 years and women 93.1 years.
• [New] Coding for Employment will create over 9 million jobs and reach 32 million youth and women across Africa.
• This year will see the end of different UK state pension ages for men and women.
• Hong Kong's men and women enjoy the longest life expectancy in the world implying that more people will be relying on social services paid by a shrinking workforce.
• Efforts to empower women and close the gender gap in labor markets could add US$28 trillion to global, annual GDP within the next decade.
• UNESCO is using economic opportunity to promote a number of activities meant to build women's entrepreneurial skills by creating a favourable business climate and increasing their management skills.
• If this year's numbers for US women candidates prove to be more than a one-year wave and become a rising tide, politics could look very different for many years to come.
• India could increase its GDP by $770 billion by 2025 by getting more women to work and increasing equality.
• Growth in demand for STEM skills represents a significant opportunity to promote greater overall social mobility in the UK.
• There is a significant opportunity for Heineken to appeal to both men and women with its messaging, as both sexes look to become healthier and cut down on drinking.
• A combination of low fertility rates and longer life spans will lead to future ageing in all major regions of the world.
• By the end of 2019, consumers are expected to buy more used phones, petty crime and domestic problems will rise, and the number of Saudi women working in businesses will increase.
• Improving gender equality in workplaces and society could add as much as $60 billion to Ontario's GDP over the next decade.
• South Korea will spend more on preparing measures to tackle the low birth rate, elderly poverty and low employment rate among women.
• By achieving gender parity (in terms of LFP), Latin America and the Caribbean countries would on average increase their GDPs by 14 percent
• The requirement to publish pay gap data only covers companies with more than 250 employees, which means that a significant number of women working the UK will still have no idea how their employer measures up.
• Four decades of rapid economic growth in China have created unprecedented economic opportunities for women, but gender discrimination in employment remains widespread.
• Achieving gender equality around the world could increase global GDP by $12 trillion over 10 years.
• Serious issues for men's health and the ongoing prevalence of external risks for men in Sri Lanka are reflected in life expectancy projections that predict that by 2021 male life expectancy will reach 71.7 years while female life expectancy will reach 81.7 years.
• In the United States the American Association of University Women gives a bleak forecast, predicting women will reach equal pay in 100 years, while the Institute for Women's Policy Research estimates it will be reached by 2059.
• 73 percent of global executives (who are majority men) believe that gender equality at the C-level will be achieved by 2030 most companies do not have specific goals for achieving that outcome.
• The UK unemployment rate is close to a 40-year low: There is also a joint record number of women in work - 15.1 million: The OBR predict there will be over 500,000 more people in work by 2022.
• The World Bank estimates that of 173 countries, 90% had at least one law impeding women's economic opportunities: it is estimated that by eliminating barriers to women in the workforce, the Asia - Pacific region could increase its output by up to US$47 billion each year.

Last updated: 21 June 2018