This poster presents data on women in executive positions as Heads of State, Heads of Government, and Cabinet members leading policymaking areas as heads of Ministries. Data show that women are underrepresented in executive positions worldwide and that gender parity is still out of reach.

This methodological briefing note has been developed to contribute to strengthening the quality and availability of data on violence against women 60 years and older. It summarizes the work conducted so far to advance the measurement, existing challenges, and data gaps, and it identifies key recommendations to strengthen ongoing and future data collection efforts.

This briefing note has been developed to contribute to strengthening the quality and availability of data on violence against women with disability. It analyses the work conducted so far, existing challenges and data gaps, and identifies key recommendations to strengthen ongoing and future data collection efforts.

Generation Equality is the world’s leading effort to unlock political will and accelerate investment and implementation on gender equality. Launched at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, this report presents the latest evidence on the implementation of commitments of the Economic Justice and Rights Action Coalition. The report demonstrates, through compelling evidence, that stakeholders are mobilizing new resources and are delivering game-changing results.

This infographic on Sustainable Development Goal indicator 5.1.1 analyses the latest data for 120 countries, emphasizes the importance of strong legal frameworks that advance gender equality, showcases good practices by countries, discusses continuing legal gaps, and highlights priority actions to enhance progress.

This checklist is designed to help national statistics offices and other national research and data institutions and research teams to think through the steps needed to produce high-quality survey data on intimate partner violence—from the planning stages through analysis, report write-up, and dissemination of accurately interpreted findings.

Generation Equality is the world’s leading effort to unlock political will and accelerate investment and implementation on gender equality. Launched at the start of the 16 Days of Activism campaign in 2023, this report presents the latest evidence on the implementation of commitments made by the Action Coalition on Gender-Based Violence. The report provides compelling evidence that stakeholders are mobilizing new resources and delivering transformative results in this critical area.

The gender-related killings of women and girls represent the lethal end point of a continuum of gender-based violence. This publication includes global estimates of gender-related killings of women and girls by an intimate partner or family member, with data from 2022, and features policy recommendations. By ensuring that every victim is counted, we can ensure that perpetrators are held to account and justice is served.

This report presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, focusing not only on the current level of progress, but also on the likelihood of achieving gender equality across the Goals at the current trajectory. Among this year’s recommendations is a call to significantly expand national investments and international financing in support of gender equality.

This report highlights the global challenges faced by women and provides a roadmap for targeted interventions and policy reforms. The report introduces two new indices: The Women’s Empowerment Index (WEI) measures women’s power and freedoms to make choices, while the Global Gender Parity Index (GGPI) assesses gender disparities in key dimensions of human development. Combined, these indices offer a comprehensive assessment of countries’ progress in achieving gender equality.

Water stress is intensifying, taking tolls on women’s and girls’ time, health, and lives. A feminist approach to the water crisis recognizes the important role women play in their communities as the main collectors, protectors, and managers of water. This paper aims to review the state of gender equality in SDG 6 and showcases how a gender perspective can inform and strengthen the discourse around SDG 6 acceleration.

Accurate and timely sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics on migration are critical for understanding the specific situations, needs, and challenges of migrants, and for shaping migration policy, but these data continue be lacking. This document serves to fill this gap by providing guidance on how to collect data on the situation of migrant women.

This technical brief analyses SDG Indicator 5.c.1 (proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment) data reported by 105 countries from 2018 to 2021. It highlights promising practices and remaining gaps on gender-responsive budgeting, showcasing country examples and identifying strategies and entry points for more effective gender mainstreaming in policy setting, budget allocation, budget execution, and data transparency.

This paper offers a landscape scan highlighting what is known about technology-facilitated violence against women, who is currently generating this knowledge, and how the evidence is being produced. The paper also highlights some of the related methodological, ethical, and sociopolitical challenges to collecting data on technology-facilitated violence against women. As a way forward, actions for strengthening knowledge generation and data collection are proposed, including recommendations on methods and further research.

In an increasingly digitized world, one of the more concerning dynamics is technology-facilitated violence against women. This brief paper summarizes the scoping review and key recommendations on the approaches to collecting data on technology-facilitated violence against women, the current state of evidence and data, and the challenges presented in the research paper, “Technology-facilitated violence against women: taking stock of evidence and data collection”.

This research paper provides an overview of the global estimates of gender-related killings of women and girls in the private sphere in 2021. It also features policy recommendations to support comprehensive and multisectoral approaches to prevent and address gender-related killings and other forms of gender-based violence against women and girls.

The latest available Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 data show that the world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030. “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2022” presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals, calling out the long road ahead to achieve gender equality. It emphasizes the interlinkages among the goals, the pivotal force gender equality plays in driving progress across the SDGs and women and girls’ central role in leading the way.

Drawing on a unique global dataset of nearly 5,000 measures adopted by 226 countries and territories in response to COVID-19, this UN Women and UNDP report finds that government responses paid insufficient attention to gender dynamics, though instances of innovation hold important lessons for gender-responsive policymaking during crises. The report analyses the factors that led to a strong gender response, generating key lessons for resilience and preparedness for future shocks.

This working paper features data and analyses of women’s representation in 133 countries and areas. The paper considers the impacts of legislated quotas and electoral systems in local elections on women’s political participation and identifies remaining data gaps on women’s political participation in local government, including data disaggregation, underused electoral data, and the need for new data collection tools.

The pandemic has tested and even reversed progress in expanding women’s rights and opportunities. “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2021” presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals, highlighting the progress made since 2015 but also the continued alarm over the COVID-19 pandemic, its immediate effect on women’s well-being, and the threat it poses to future generations.