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] The Rural Development Ministry plans to add more than 14 lakhs SHGs (Self Help Groups) to achieve 75 lakh SHGs by the year 2022 to enable more women to get livelihood.
No country was on track to achieve gender equality by 2030, the deadline to achieve the UN sustainable development goals.
79% of shows programmed by the United States' 50 largest ballet companies during the 2019-2020 performance season were choreographed by men, according to figures from the Dance Data Project; it had been 81% male the year before.
Within 10 years, two thirds of the world's population are expected to live in countries where women will have fewer than 2.1 births on average.
Of the OECD countries, the United States is anticipated to achieve the most gains in absolute terms from closing the pay gap, with total female earnings increasing by $801 billion, almost three times as much as the next biggest winner, Japan.
The United Nations estimates that achieving its sustainable development goals for issues including poverty, clean water and gender equality by 2030 will require as much as $7 trillion a year, with an annual funding shortfall of $2.5 trillion in developing countries.
By 2042, the Office for National Statistics expects just under a quarter of people living in the UK to be aged 65 or older, up from under one in five in 2016: Average life expectancy at 65, meanwhile, is now a further 18.8 years for men and 21.1 years for women.
At the current pace of progress, no country will reach gender parity by 2030, and global parity will only be achieved in 2234, in 215 years or nine generations.
17% of current CBD respondents, led by men aged 21-34, reported consuming CBD beverages, and 30% of nonusers reported interest: with a projected average annual growth in the United States of 75%, from 2018 to 2023, the emerging category of CBD beverages is hard to ignore.
A new Implementation Plan across all Australian jurisdictions released today will support the delivery of the Fourth Action Plan of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022.
NASA is set to send the first woman and next man to the surface on the Moon by 2024 in the Artemis mission, with plans for additional lunar missions once a year thereafter and a human exploration of Mars is targeted for the mid-2030s.
The Government of Myanmar has made notable commitments and progress towards gender equality and empowerment of women and girls including through its National Strategic Plan for the Advancement of Women 2013-2022 with a dedicated focus on women in emergencies.
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division projection assumes that fertility will fall from around 4.6 live births per woman in 2019 to 3.1 in 2050 and further to 2.1 in 2100.
By 2060 in OECD countries the normal retirement age will approach 66, which represents an increase of 1.5 years for men and 2.1 years for women.
In 2015-2020, the expectation of life at age 65 has increased to 18 years for women and 16 years for men and it is projected to increase further, reaching 20 years for women and 18 years for men in 2045-2050.
There are more than 3.6 million men with a past diagnosis of prostate cancer in the United States, and 174,650 cases will be newly diagnosed in 2019.
Newmont, the world's No. 1 gold producer, has plans to achieve gender parity in senior management by 2030, with a near-term goal of women holding at least 30% of senior roles.
The Artemis program will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024 using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before.
This year, an estimated 79,030 adults (60,490 men and 18,540 women) will be diagnosed with bladder cancer in the United States.
In FY 2020, North Dakota will increase the income limit for pregnant women from 152% FPL to 162% FPL, and West Virginia will increase the income limit for pregnant women from 150% FPL to 185% FPL.
If current trends continue, by 2025, global obesity prevalence is expected to reach 18% in men and surpass 21% in women; severe obesity will surpass 6% in men and 9% in women.
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences forecast that next year there will be 24 million more men than women of marriageable age.

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Last updated: 02 April 2020