Poland only 77th in World Economic Forum's 2022 Global Gender Gap Index

The global gender gap is 68.1 percent, and it will take 132 years to reach full parity. This is a slight four-year improvement over the 2021 estimate (136 years). However, it does not compensate for the generational loss during the 2020 and 2021 pandemics, when it was determined that the gender gap would close within 100 years. This means that the pandemic meant a loss of more than 30 years. The data comes from the World Economic Forum's 2022 Global Gender Gap Index report covering 146 countries.

Iceland remains the only economy to have closed more than 90 percent of the gender gap. Other Scandinavian countries such as Finland (86 percent), Norway (84.5 percent), and Sweden (82.2 percent) are in the top five along with New Zealand (84.1 percent).  Other European countries such as Ireland (80.4 percent) and Germany (80.1 percent) are in the top 10.

Unfortunately, Poland is only in 77th place in the overall ranking (also ranking a distant 30th in Europe, with a score of 70.9 percent). If it weren't for a very high score in education (99.2 percent, which is practically parity), this position would be even weaker. We fared exceptionally badly in Political Empowerment, and in terms of pay for identical work Poland fell to 119th place among 146 countries in the world.

(WBJ)