Recently, the World Economic Forum released the "Global Gender Gap Report 2025" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"), stating that the global gender gap has narrowed to 68.8%, achieving the largest annual progress since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, at the current rate, it will still take 123 years to achieve complete gender equality globally.
In 2020, the World Economic Forum's forecast for this period was 99.5 years. With the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women's employment and economic participation, the gender gap has widened in terms of economic participation and opportunities. The version of the report to be released in 2024 expects the time needed to achieve global full gender equality to be 134 years, which is also the longest predicted time since the report's release.