Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2025, jointly produced by UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, provides the latest global data on gender equality across all 17 SDGs. Released in September 2025, it marks critical milestones — 30 years since the Beijing Declaration, 25 years of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, and 80 years of the United Nations — while highlighting that with just five years left to 2030, gender equality remains off track. The report serves as both a progress check and a call to accelerate action on closing gender gaps in poverty, education, health, decision-making, and digital inclusion.
Key Insights:
No SDG gender target is fully on track; most indicators are far from being met.
Extreme poverty: ~9.2% of women and girls live in extreme poverty; ~351 million could remain in 2030 if trends continue.
Food insecurity: Tens of millions more women than men are food insecure.
Digital divide: Women lag behind men in internet access (~65% vs 70% globally); closing the gap could lift ~30 million women out of poverty and add US$1.5 trillion to global GDP by 2030.
Employment & unpaid work: Women are less likely to be employed and spend ~2.5 times more hours on unpaid domestic and care work.
Leadership & decision-making: Women hold ~27% of parliamentary seats globally; very few countries have women heads of state or government.
Health & education: Gains in maternal health and girls’ schooling are slow, uneven, and threatened by conflict, climate change, and rights backlash.
Backlash & risk: Progress is fragile; rights of women and girls face stagnation or regression in some regions due to systemic inequalities and crises.
