Global Gender Gap Report 20256Regional results and time to parity –Northern America leads the 2025 regional gender gap rankings, having closed 75.8% of its overall gender gap. With an economic parity score of 76.1%, the region also ranks first in Economic Participation and Opportunity; however since 2006, Northern America has only increased economic parity by +0.6 percentage points. Mixed results across indicators have limited the extent of advances in economic parity made over time. The region maintains a full parity score in Educational Attainment. In fact, female enrolment rates in tertiary education now far surpass those of men (by around 30 percentage points). Since 2006, Northern America has made the most progress in the Political Empowerment subindex, where it places third in 2025, with a score of 29.7%, narrowing its political parity gap by 19.3 percentage points. A substantive increase in ministerial parity (+50.4 percentage points) has largely contributed to this result. –Europe follows in the ranking in second place, with three-quarters of the regional gender gap closed (75.1%), despite the performance being somewhat uneven across the 40 economies in the block. Over time, Europe has narrowed its overall gap by 6.3 percentage points and its economic gap by 8.6 points since 2006. Despite having the fourth-highest score (68.4%) among the eight regions in Economic Participation and Opportunity, more than one-third (37.5%) of European economies have closed three quarters of their economic gap. Over time, the region has reduced gender disparity in overall workforce representation by 7.8 percentage points. Ranking third in Educational Attainment with a score of 99.6%, about one third of the block (35%) has attained full educational parity, with the remaining economies standing within 5 percentage points of achieving it. In Health and Survival, Europe sees, like many regions, a decrease in healthy life expectancy affecting its subindex scores. Europe posts the highest regional score in Political Empowerment (35.4%). Out of all regions, Europe has the third- and second-highest scores for ministerial and parliamentary parity in 2025, at 55.3% and 53.3%, respectively. –R anking third is Latin America and the Caribbean, with a score of 74.5%. The region continues to have the fastest rate of progress, having advanced 8.6 percentage points since 2006. Despite achieving the third-lowest score globally in Economic Participation and Opportunity (65.6%), every economy in the region has closed at least 50% of its economic gap. The region advances in close step, with less than 8.4 percentage points separating the top and bottom performers in this subindex. In 2025, the region has closed, on average, 65.0% of its gender gap in senior economic leadership positions. The region records the third-highest score in Educational Attainment (99.6%), with 10 of the 23 economies having reached full educational parity, and the remaining 13 within 3 percentage points of doing so. Latin America and the Caribbean ranks second globally (35.0%) in Political Empowerment and boasts a strong record of female political leadership: 15 economies have had a woman as head of state in the past five decades. In 17 economies, women make up at least one-third of the cabinet, and all economies include women in parliament – with Nicaragua and Mexico posting full parliamentary parity. –Central Asia places fourth in the global ranking, posting a gender parity score of 69.8% in 2025. Of the seven economies that make up the Central Asia group, four are listed in the top 100, but only Armenia (59th) and Georgia (63rd) register scores above 70% (73.1% and 72.9%, respectively). The region is moving in relative unison towards parity – only 8 percentage points separate Armenia (59th, 73.1%) from Tajikistan (129th, 64.6%). Central Asia is among the three top-scoring regions for Economic Participation and Opportunity (71.2%), Educational Attainment (99.3%) and Health and Survival (97.3%), yet has the second lowest score for Political Empowerment out of all regions at 11.6%. Despite a 1 percentage-point overall loss in labour-force participation parity score since 2006, Central Asia has made significant gains in economic representation, increasing its parity score in senior officials, managers and legislators by +0.2 percentage points. Of the seven economies in the region, however, only Georgia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have closed more than 70% of the Economic Participation and Opportunity gap, with scores of 72.4%, 71.5% and 74.8%, respectively. Since 2006, the region's gender parity score in Educational Attainment has receded by -0.3 percentage points. Six economies in the region are pushing towards educational parity with scores over 98%, and only Tajikistan trails behind (93.9%). Finally, despite having the second-lowest regional score in Political Empowerment, Central Asia has leaped forward with an 8.2 percentage-point increase in its ministerial representation score and a 10 percentage-point improvement in parliamentary parity. Armenia, Georgia and Uzbekistan lead the region on this subindex, with scores over 20%. –In 5th place with a 69.4% parity score is Eastern Asia and the Pacific. About half (52.6%) of the regional block ranks in the top 100, but only New Zealand (5th, 82.7%) features in the top 10. The region has the second-highest regional score for Economic Participation and Opportunity at 71.6% and a relatively high score concentration within the 70-80% range. Only one economy, Fiji (126th, 64.7%) has closed less than two-thirds of the economic gap (58.8%). In 2025, 17 of 19 economies in the region have a female labour-force participation rate of over 40%, the highest of which is recorded in Cambodia. Eastern Asia and the Pacific, however, places third-to-last in

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