The Challenge

“Girls can’t do that”

Women running Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. have just reached a record high of 11.6%. In 2024, women held only 27% of seats in national parliaments and 35.5% of seats in local governments; 107 countries have never had a woman Head of State. Only 10 percent of the world’s music directors are women, an orchestra’s top conducting job, barely up from 8.5 percent reported in 2006.

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Women's Power Index

The Women’s Power Index ranks 193 UN member states on their progress toward gender parity in political participation — Council on Foreign Relations