## GENDER EQUALITY — Global Gender Gap Index 2018 (infographic)

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### Overall findings
- The 2018 Global Gender Gap Index finds that women have reached 68 percent parity overall, leaving a gap of 32 percent.
- The report measures the gender gap in four main areas: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.
- Health and education gender gaps are closing, while political and economic empowerment gaps remain large.

### Leadership and economic power
- Women represent:
  - 17 heads of state
  - 18% of ministers
  - 24% of parliamentarians
  - 34% of managers
- In just 60% of countries studied, women have as much access to financial services as men.
- In 42% of countries, women have as much access to land ownership as men.
- Women spend double the time men do on housework and other unpaid activities in the 29 countries for which data are available.

### Education
- There is high enrollment in secondary education globally:
  - 65% of girls
  - 66% of boys
- College/university attendance is lower:
  - 39% of women
  - 34% of men
- 20% of women are illiterate in 44 countries.

### Political and regional performance (Top 10 performers — Global Index)
- Iceland 1 0.858
- Norway 2 0.835
- Sweden 3 0.822
- Finland 4 0.821
- Nicaragua 5 0.809
- Rwanda 6 0.804
- New Zealand 7 0.801
- Philippines 8 0.799
- Ireland 9 0.796
- Namibia 10 0.789

### Emerging gaps in technology and AI
- Only 22 percent of AI professionals worldwide are women, while 78 percent are men.
- Implications highlighted:
  - The AI skills gap may worsen future gender gaps, as AI skills will be increasingly in demand.
  - Technology developed without diverse talent limits its innovative and inclusive capacity.
  - The low integration of women in AI implies a significant missed opportunity in a field where talent is already scarce.

### AI workforce distribution and industry notes
- Women make up 22 percent of AI workers, but the gender gap varies by industry.
- Industry gender-gap indicators (as shown):
  - Software and IT Services (.23)
  - Education (.33)
  - Finance (.24)
  - Manufacturing (.18)
  - Corporate services (.30)
  - Hardware and networking (.23)
  - Health care (.34)
- Share of AI talent pool (%) values shown in the infographic: 7.4%, 0.9%, 0.8%, 1.4%, 4.6%, 2.6%, 5.4%, 3.5%, 3.6%, 5.7%, 13.9%, 32.5%.

### Policy implication
- To stay competitive, countries must make gender equality a priority; the report highlights countries that—within their region or income group—are leaders in distributing resources more equitably between women and men, regardless of the overall level of resources.

*Prepared by LIJUN LI, communications officer, IMF. Text and charts are based on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2018.*

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