Closing the Gender Gap: The Gender Parity Taskforces

The Global Gender Gap Report 2014 emphasizes persisting gender gap divides across and within regions. Based on the nine years of data available for the 111 countries that have been part of the report since its inception, the world has seen only a small improvement in equality for women in the workplace. The Global Gender Gap Index presented in this Report seeks to measure one important aspect of gender equality: the relative gaps between women and men across four key areas: health, education, economy and politics. According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, the gender gap for economic participation and opportunity stands at 60% worldwide, having closed by 4% from 56% in 2006.