In contrast, Political Empowerment in East Asia and the Pacific is regressing, marking the only negative trend in this subindex across all regions. While six of the eight regions have improved their Political Empowerment subindex scores, the progress of these two regions are the most significant in this edition of report, and among the most remarkable year-on-year improvements in this subindex since 2012. The performances of Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America have been driven by a significant reduction of political empowerment gaps (+4.3 and +5.0 points, respectively, compared to the 2018 edition). All other regions improve at a slower rate (gaps have been reduced by 0.6 points or less). The two most improved regions this year are Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, which have both reduced their gaps by 1.4 percentage points, followed by Western Europe (gap reduced by 0.9 percentage points). All regions have reduced their gender gaps by at least three decimal points this year. It highlights the local progress towards gender parity made over the past decade in East Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, North America, Western Europe, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Figure 7 tracks the evolution of the overall index since 2006 by region. Progress towards gender parity is proceeding at different speeds across the eight geographic areas benchmarked by this report. Figure 6: Gender gap closed to date by region, 2020įigure 7: Evolution of the Global Gender Gap Index by region over time The reader should note that population-weighted group averages are used throughout the report. The East Asia and the Pacific region (68.5%) is just ahead of Sub-Saharan Africa (68.0%), while South Asia has closed 66.1% of its gap and is ahead of the Middle East and North Africa, the region with the lowest performance (61.1%). Western Europe is once again the region where the gender gap is smallest (76.7%), placing it ahead of North America, which has closed 72.9% of its gap, Latin America and the Caribbean (72.1%), and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (71.5%). In 2020, four regions have closed at least 71% of their gaps. Figure 6 provides a snapshot of the regional average gender gap closed so far.
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