Recently, the World Economic Forum released the "Global Gender Gap Report 2025" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"), stating that the global gender gap has narrowed to 68.8%, achieving the largest annual progress since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, at the current rate, it will still take 123 years to achieve complete gender equality globally.

In 2020, the World Economic Forum's forecast for this period was 99.5 years. With the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women's employment and economic participation, the gender gap has widened in terms of economic participation and opportunities. The version of the report to be released in 2024 expects the time needed to achieve global full gender equality to be 134 years, which is also the longest predicted time since the report's release.

In the 2025 report, China ranks 103rd with a score of 68.6%, indicating that it has achieved nearly 70% of its gender parity goal. This marks a slight improvement from the previous year’s score of 68.4% and ranking of 106th, bringing China closer to its historical peak of 69.1% recorded in 2013.