Women are still five generations away from achieving true gender parity

The gender parity It is still very far away and the slowness of improvements is behind the estimate that it will take five generations (about 134 years) to reach it, and this is in case there are no new setbacks like the one experienced in several places during the period of the covid-19 pandemic.

This is the calculation made in the annual gender gap analysis of the World Economic Forum, published this Wednesday and which indicates that gender parity in the workforce has recovered to 65.7%, compared to 62.3% in the period of the health crisis, particularly due to the impact that the sudden need to devote themselves to the care of their most vulnerable relatives had on women.

In general, the gender parity It currently rises to 68.5%, after a practically imperceptible improvement of 0.1% compared to a year ago.

In the ranking of the most advanced countries in this field, Iceland, Finland and Norway They occupy – in this order – the first places, with the first one achieving a brilliant 93.5% gender gap.

Spain It occupies tenth place, with a 79.7% gap, more than 11% ahead of the average of the countries analyzed.

Setting aside the recovery of the labor indicator since the pandemic, the improvement in women’s participation in politics has had the greatest impact on the best observed since it is an area in which the disparity is greatest, with political leadership positions and business command out of its reach in a general way.

In the labor market, the most pronounced progress has been recorded in the last year in the region of Latin America and the caribbeanwhere gender parity rises to 74.2%, while the economic gap stands at 65.7%, based on strong parity in participation in employment and professional roles.

The region is also distinguished by being the second in the world (after Europe) with the highest rate of women’s political empowerment.

At a global level, the analysis mentions that data from the professional platform LinkedIn indicates that the representation of women in the workforce continues to be below that of men in each industry and economic sector, representing 42% of the workforce and 31.7 % in management positions.

And although the presence of women in artificial intelligence engineering areas has doubled since 2016, the gender disparity in science, technology and mathematics areas remains low, with just 29% of women holding entry-level positions. career.