Gender Snapshot 2025 Report, Key Highlights and Recommendations

Gender Snapshot 2025 Report, Key Highlights, Opportunities and Recommendations

Gender Snapshot 2025 highlights global progress and gaps in SDG-gender equality goals: poverty, unpaid care work, violence, leadership, digital access—urgent action needed.

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Context: The Gender Snapshot 2025 was released by UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).

Gender Snapshot 2025 Report Key Highlights

Poverty and Inequality

By 2030, 351 million women and girls could remain in extreme poverty if current trends continue.
Female poverty has been stuck at ~10% since 2020.
Climate change and conflict risk worsening inequalities.

Progress Achieved

Maternal mortality has dropped by 39% since 2000.
Girls’ school enrolment has improved globally.
Child marriage declined: from 22% in 2014 → 6% in 2024.

Setbacks & Gaps

Women spend 5 times more hours on unpaid domestic and care work than men.
Women hold <1/3 of parliamentary seats and remain underrepresented in managerial roles → gender parity in leadership could take nearly a century.
Digital divide: 70% of men vs 65% of women used the internet in 2024.
- Closing this gap could lift 30 million women out of poverty and add $1.5 trillion to global GDP by 2030.

Vulnerability and Violence

64 million more women than men were food insecure in 2024.
1 in 8 women (15–49 yrs) faced physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner in the past year.
In 2024, 676 million women and girls lived within 50 km of deadly conflict — the highest since the 1990s.

Political Leadership

102 countries have never had a woman head of state or government.

Future Risks

Climate change (worst-case scenario) → could push 158 million more women into extreme poverty by 2050.
Generative AI disruption: Women’s jobs at higher risk (27.6%) vs men’s (21.1%).

Opportunities & Recommendations

Accelerated action in education, care economy, green jobs, and social protection → could cut extreme poverty among women by 110 million by 2050.
Would unlock an estimated $342 trillion in cumulative global economic returns.
Linked to Beijing+30 Action Agenda → 6 urgent priorities: ending violence, ending poverty, ensuring leadership, climate justice, digital inclusion, and stronger investments.