WHAT'S NEXT?: Achieving global gender parity will take many decades yet. Read on to understand the trends, challenges and efforts to advance parity at a faster pace.
[New] Women have transformed the global health workforce over the past three decades, but they continue to be concentrated in professions that generally offer lower pay and fewer opportunities for leadership.
EurekAlert!
[New] Women now make up nearly 70% of health workers worldwide but remain concentrated in professions that generally offer lower pay and fewer leadership opportunities.
EurekAlert!
[New] Where workers are located, which professions they enter and whether the predominantly female workforce receives opportunities to develop and lead will be equally important to the future of global healthcare.
ICT&health
[New] Women remain concentrated in professions that generally offer lower salaries and fewer opportunities for leadership.
ICT&health
[New] Women veterans with service in Iraq and Afghanistan are at increased risk of exposure to violence and combat.
PubMed Central (PMC)
[New] Without decisive action, violence against women in Cameroon will remain pervasive and the costs of inaction will continue to be borne by women and girls whose rights, safety, and dignity are routinely denied.
Human Rights Watch
[New] Cameroon has reached its self-imposed 2026 deadline to halve violence against women and is approaching a second target set out in its national development plan to reduce poverty by 2030, yet progress remains limited.
Human Rights Watch
[New] By 2100, life expectancy could exceed 90 years for women and 86 for men.
[New] Women make up just 22% of the global data and AI workforce, not for lack of talent, but due to young women in marginalized and underserved communities having limited access to digital resources, AI training and opportunities.
EY
[New] The audience profile is commercially strong: 60% of fans are expected to be women by 2030, nearly 50% fall into top global income brackets, and around 50% are in their prime spending age.
Financial Study Association Groningen
[New] Violence against women is a global issue, but women in lower-income, conflict-affected and climate-vulnerable countries often face heightened risks due to intersecting social, economic and political inequalities.
ActionAid UK
[New] Research from the World Economic Forum is sobering: at the current pace, it will take more than a century to reach worldwide gender parity.
The Women in Stem Network
[New] The number of young men applying to be conscientious objectors and refuse armed military service in Germany has risen sharply in 2026, undermining a drive by Berlin to create Europe's strongest conventional army and deter the Russian threat.
The Guardian
[New] Female human rights defenders in Somalia continue to face disproportionate risks, it said, including arbitrary arrest, judicial harassment, intimidation, online abuse and gender-based discrimination, aimed at excluding them from civic and political participation.
The Guardian
[New] In order to end HIV and AIDS as public health threats by 2030, a genuinely impactful approach must place the most vulnerable at its core while championing human rights and gender equality and tackling stigma and discrimination.
EEAS
25% of women plan to start a business in 2026, while 58% say they plan to or would consider launching within the next 12 months.
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Last updated: 27 August 2026
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