'Gender Snapshot' Doesn't Bode Well for a Woman Leader at UN
A new UN report highlights that gender equality is regressing, with current projections suggesting it will take 171 years to achieve. There is growing pressure for the UN to elect its first female leader to address these systemic barriers.
Why it matters
The lack of female leadership at the UN is seen as a contradiction to its mission of promoting global gender equality.
At a time when the fight for gender equality is facing a backlash, pressure is mounting for the next leader of the United Nations to be the first woman in its more than 80-year history. The contradiction isn't lost on UN Women, the agency facing an uphill struggle pressing for the rights of women and girls - and for women to be at the top in international organizations, governments, business, technology, and the escalating debate over artificial intelligence, per the AP . According to the UN agency's recent "gender snapshot," at the current rate of progress it will take 171 years to achieve gender equality, a UN goal initially set for 2015 and then moved to 2030.
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