Gender Gap Details

Women in Workforce

Global female workforce participation

47%
47%

Women in Leadership

C-suite and senior positions

10%
10%

Wage Gap

Women earn less on average

-18%
82%

GDP Contribution

Despite being 47% of workforce

33%
33%
Women
Men

Women are about half of the world’s population…

…but our share of measured GDP is much smaller.

Only about 1/3 of measured GDP globally is attributed to women.

The Missing $12 Trillion

Analysts estimate that simply narrowing the gender gap could add around $12 trillion to global GDP in just a decade.

Invisible Work

A lot of women’s work is unpaid, invisible, or blocked—caregiving, informal work, shut doors.

From “Help” to “Backbone”

When you stop treating women as ‘extra’ and start treating us as the backbone, the whole bar rises.

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