Context: Over 40% feel that men make better business executives and that men have more right to a job when jobs are scarce according to UNDP’s Gender Social Norms Index.

• ABOUT HALF the world’s population feel men make better political leaders.
• OVER 40% feel that men make better business executives and that men have more right to a job when jobs are scarce.
• 24% of parliamentary seats worldwide are held by women, and there are only 10 female heads of government out of a possible 193.
• Less than 6% of CEOs in S&P 500 companies are women; while women work more hours than men, this work is more likely to be unpaid care work.
• 86% & 90% of women and men, respectively, held some sort of bias against women (2018), according to UNDP’s Gender Social Norms Index; in India (2014-15), this bias showed un 97% of women and 99% of men.