Data Stories and Blogs

Tracing Global Trends in Education: A Tale of Old and New Gender Gaps

Tracing Global Trends in Education: A Tale of Old and New Gender Gaps

All children have a human right to quality education. Girls historically had very low levels of education and consistently lagged boys but are now educated at far higher levels than at any other point in history. Let’s take a look at where girls have been catching up on educational opportunities and explore challenges that remain for both boys and girls.
The WBL Index: fueling Sub-Saharan Africa's Gender Equality through the power of data

The WBL Index: fueling Sub-Saharan Africa's Gender Equality through the power of data

Take a deep dive into data that provides a clear painting of the challenges faced by African women and the remarkable progress made and reforms implemented by Sub-Saharan Africa despite these hurdles.
SDG Atlas 2023 Goal 5 Gender Equality: Realizing gender equality - a greater challenge with climate change

SDG Atlas 2023 Goal 5 Gender Equality: Realizing gender equality - a greater challenge with climate change

SDG 5 calls for achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls. Women spend far more time on unpaid and domestic work than men, on average an additional 2.4 hours a day. One in five girls get married before the age of 18. Climate change threatens to worsen these gender inequalities.
SDG Atlas 2020 Goal 5 Gender Equality: Legal progress towards gender equality

SDG Atlas 2020 Goal 5 Gender Equality: Legal progress towards gender equality

Providing equal rights to women and men is fundamental to achieving gender equality. On a broad set of legal rights, the average woman today is afforded only three-quarters of the rights the average man enjoys.
Breaking barriers: the path to equality

Breaking barriers: the path to equality

Even after getting their education, women in many countries still face barriers throughout their working lives. Data from the World Bank's Women, Business, and the Law identify these legal barriers and the magnitude of the economic cost.
Escaping gender-based violence

Escaping gender-based violence

Gender-based violence (GBV) is still highly prevalent. Globally, nearly 1 in 3 women will experience violence in their lifetime. Yet all too often, women stay silent and do not seek assistance from formal systems or individuals in authority positions. Let’s take a look at where women do feel they can turn for help.
Violence against women and girls – what the data tell us

Violence against women and girls – what the data tell us

One in three women above the age of 15 across the world have experienced violence. This phenomenon is not new, but now there is better data to understand the full magnitude of such violence. New estimates for intimate partner violence against women and for non-partner sexual violence against women, reveal regional and age disparities, while pointing to the global scale of the problem.
The Social and Educational Consequences of Adolescent Childbearing

The Social and Educational Consequences of Adolescent Childbearing

Adolescent fertility is widely recognized as having significant consequences for young women. Early child-bearing is associated with lower schooling levels, child marriage, and worse labor market outcomes for young women. Despite these implications and notwithstanding downward trends in many countries, in many parts of the world, rates of adolescent fertility remain persistently high.
Female labor force participation

Female labor force participation

Across the globe, women face inferior income opportunities compared with men. When women do work, they are less likely to work for income and in most cases they earn less than men. Even though more than half of all women (ages 15-64) participate in the labor market globally and regionally, there are sizeable regional and national variations in the levels and trends of female labor force participation.

World Bank Blogs

The Gender Data Blog series is written in English and published quasi-monthly. The majority of blogs are translated into Spanish and some even into French, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, and Indonesian.

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