G7 PERFORMANCE ON GENDER EQUALITY, 1975–2024
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lowest compliers are Japan at 64% and Italy at 51%. RECOMMENDATIONS The highest complying summits, averaging 90%, had a high degree of internal G7 institutional support: they coincided with two ministerial meetings on gender equality and the creation of a gender-related official or multi-stakeholder body, councils, partnerships, forums or initiatives, including the Gender Equality Advisory Council. The lowest complying summits, averaging 61%, came on commitments made in years when only a related ministerial meeting took place.
The highest complying summits also dedicated a larger percentage of their communiqués – on average 14% – to gender equality. This compares to the 12% average for the lowest complying summits. Core gender commitments average 70% compliance and gender-related commitments average 75%. Among the latter, those with the highest compliance link gender equality to health, specifically to maternal and newborn health, AIDS, and reproductive health. Commitments with the lowest compliance lack specificity, but commit to or support gender equality and women’s empowerment broadly. The presence of compliance catalysts, such as text on implementation, generally improves compliance. Gender commitments with such catalysts average 75% compliance; those with none average 71%. The catalysts that coincide with the highest compliance refer to an implementation target, a G7 body, legal instruments or the mobilisation of a specified dollar amount.
The highest compliance came with commitments made in 2021 and 2002 with 100% each, in 2013 with 95%, in 2023 with 94%, in 1996 with 92%, in 2010 with 89%, in 2022 with 88% and in 2014 with 85%. The lowest compliance came with commitments made in 2011 with 45% and 2016 with 51%. By December, compliance with the one gender commitment assessed from 2024 was 94%. The highest complying G7 member on gender equality is Canada at 87%, followed by the United Kingdom at 86% and the European Union at 79%. In the middle are Germany at 77%, the United States at 75% and France at 71%. The
“Gender commitments with the highest compliance focused on health (including maternal, newborn and child health), promoting access to education for girls, and commitments that invoked legal action or the protection of human rights”
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