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Preface 4

Key findings 5

  1 Benchmarking gender gaps, 2026 9

    1.1 Economy coverage 9

    1.2 Global results 10

    1.3 Performance by income level 13

    1.4 Performance by subindex 16

    1.5 Progress over time 23

    1.6 Performance by region 25

    1.7 In-focus country performances: Top 10 and most populous 323

    1.8 Speed of progress 44

  2 Trends and Pathways Shaping the Future of Parity 49

    2.1 Corporate leadership and career pathways 49

    2.2 Technology and capital 57

    2.3 Policy frameworks and political leadership 62

Appendix A 69

Appendix B 71

  Section A: Computation and composition of the Global Gender Gap Index 71

  Section B: Construction of the index 73

  Section C: Indicator definitions and sources 75

Appendix C 84

Endnotes 88

References 89

User’s Guide 90

Index of Economy Profiles 93

Contributors and Acknowledgements 384

Partner Institutes 388