The World Economic Forum has estimated that it will take 123 years to achieve gender parity. While this is an improvement of 11 years from last year’s estimate, it still falls more than a century short of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Although no economy has achieved full gender parity yet, Iceland is leading for the 16th consecutive year, closing nearly 93% of its gender gap. The report measures gender gaps across four areas: Health and survival, educational attainment, economic participation and opportunity, and political empowerment. Health and survival is closest to parity, while political empowerment remains the furthest behind, despite making the most progress since 2006.
