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Gender inequalities exist around the world, including in the United States. Although women make up over half of the U.S. population, they remain minorities within the most elite sectors of society ...

Learn how women face different types of discrimination and disadvantage in various aspects of life, from car crashes to child marriage to AI. The World Economic Forum provides data and analysis on the global gender gap and how to close it.

By contrast, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women make up 67.9 percent of workers earning the federal minimum wage, ... The retirement gap is a key factor in our country’s gender inequality. According to the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, American women in late 2022 held $44,000 in median retirement savings ...

UNICEF Data provides gender statistics on children and women across various sectors, such as education, health, protection and WASH. Learn about the current status, recent resources and notes on the data of gender equality and its impact on children's rights and well-being.

The gender shift in the college-educated labor force happened about four decades after women overtook men in the number of adults earning a bachelor’s degree each year. About a third of workers in the country’s 10 highest-paying occupations (35%) are women – up from 13% in 1980, a November 2023 analysis of Census Bureau data shows.

This web page shows the Gender Inequality Index (GII) for 1990-2022, based on data from the UNDP Human Development Report. The GII measures gender-based disadvantage in reproductive health, empowerment and economic status across countries and regions.

The report benchmarks gender parity across 146 economies using four key dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment. It shows the global gender gap score at 68.5% closed, with no country achieving full parity and a slow pace of progress.

Explore the latest data and trends on gender equality across different dimensions and regions. Compare the most and least gender equal countries in the world based on various indicators and rankings.

Gender data gaps and country performance. For this score, we use the 72 gender-specific SDG indicators in the Women Count Data Hub’s SDG Dashboard for the 193 UN Member States. ... Reduced Inequalities. Dimension Women Men Total; 10.2.1 Proportion of people living below 50 per cent of median income, by sex, age and persons with disabilities ...

GII reflects gender-based disadvantage in three dimensions— reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market—for as many countries as data of reasonable quality allow. It shows the loss in potential human development due to inequality between female and male achievements in these dimensions.

See all interactive charts on economic inequality by gender ↓ ... Cross-country data on the gender pay gap is patchy, but the most complete source in terms of coverage is the United Nation's International Labour Organization (ILO). The visualization here presents this data. You can add observations by clicking on the option 'add country' at ...

Based Violence. UN Women’s Global Database on Violence against Women brings together statistical and legal data on gender-based violence and the different measures undertaken by governments.A summary of key data is also available:; Throughout the world, one in three women and girls have already experienced physical and/or sexual violence. Less than 40% sought help, and of those, only 10% ...

The World’s Women 2020: Trends and Statistics compiles 100 data stories that provide a snapshot of the state of gender equality worldwide. Presented on an interactive portal, the report analyses ...

Learn about which indicators and economies have the least data coverage and the World Bank’s efforts to fill data gaps in gender data measurement and collection. More Gender Data Resources. Access guidelines to collecting sex-disaggregated data, lists of gender data portals and national statistical offices with gender sites, gender-related ...

The report shows how COVID-19, climate change and conflict exacerbated gender inequalities and harmed women and girls. It also highlights UNICEF's achievements and challenges in promoting gender equality and empowerment of girls and women.

2020 Edition available! The World's Women 2020: Trends and Statistics compiles 100 data stories that provide a snapshot of the state of gender equality worldwide. Presented on an interactive portal, the report analyses gender equality in six critical areas: population and families; health; education; economic empowerment and asset ownership; power and decision-making; and violence against ...

This report presents statistics and facts on gender inequality in the United States. The report begins by presenting population-based demographics to highlight continuing gender differences and ...

The Gender Data Portal is a one-stop source of information on gender at the country level—a compilation of data on key gender topics from national statistics agencies, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys. Go to portal. Projects & Operations. IBRD/IDA Operations Approved by Fiscal Year.

Yet, without investing in gender statistics, large data gaps will prevent us from successfully monitoring progress on the SDGs for women and girls. UN Women’s strategy for change on gender data is Women Count. This programme has the goal to create a radical shift in how gender statistics are used, created, shared and accessed.

Since then, our data library shows slight improvement toward closing the gender wage gap, from 20.0% in 2022 to 18.9% in 2023 and 18.0% in 2024, the lowest it has ever been. These gains are promising and likely driven by a strong labor market recovery from the COVID-19 recession that lifted wages more at the lower end of the overall wage ...