The gender gap in Economic Participation and Opportunity remains the second-largest of the four key gaps tracked by the index.Globally, since the previous edition of the report, there are more women in parliaments, and two countries have elected their first female prime minister (Togo in 2020 and Belgium in 2019). Widening gender gaps in Political Participation have been driven by negative trends in some large countries which have counterbalanced progress in another 98 smaller countries.At the current rate of progress, the World Economic Forum estimates that it will take 145.5 years to attain gender parity in politics. In 81 countries, there has never been a woman head of state, as of 15th January 2021. Across the 156 countries covered by the index, women represent only 26.1% of some 35,500 parliament seats and just 22.6% of over 3,400 ministers worldwide. The gender gap in Political Empowerment remains the largest of the four gaps tracked, with only 22% closed to date, having further widened since the 2020 edition of the report by 2.4 percentage points.On its current trajectory, it will now take 135.6 years to close the gender gap worldwide.
These figures are mainly driven by a decline in the performance of large countries.
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