## Infographic of WEF’s Global Gender Gap Report – IMF Finance & Development Magazine | March 2019

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Lijun Li
- Published: March 1, 2019

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### Overview
- Gender equality is framed as both a moral imperative and an economic necessity.
- The 2018 Global Gender Gap Index finds that women have reached "68 percent parity overall," leaving a gap of "32 percent."
- The index measures the gender gap in four areas: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.

### Leadership and broader economic power
- Key statistics on representation and positions of power:
  - Women represent "18 percent" of ministers globally.
  - Women represent "24 percent" of parliamentarians globally.
  - Women hold "34 percent" of managerial positions.
- Women experience large gaps relative to men in control of financial assets and in time spent on housework and other unpaid tasks.

### Technology and AI skills gap
- The report highlights a pronounced gender gap in technology-related skills:
  - Only "22 percent" of AI professionals worldwide are women.
  - "78 percent" of AI professionals worldwide are men.
- Implications emphasized:
  - The AI skills gap may worsen future gender gaps because AI skills will be increasingly in demand.
  - Technology developed without diverse talent limits innovative and inclusive capacity.
  - Low integration of women in AI represents a "significant missed opportunity" given existing scarcity of talent in the field.

### Policy implications and pathways
- To remain competitive, countries must make gender equality a priority.
- The report identifies potential role models: countries that, within their region or income group, lead in distributing resources more equitably between women and men, regardless of overall resource levels.

*Infographic of WEF’s Global Gender Gap Report – IMF Finance & Development Magazine | March 2019*

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