// EQUALITY: GENDER EQUALITY
A s South Africa prepares to host the G20’s 2025 Johannesburg Summit, gender equality emerges as a key priority within the broader agenda of ‘Solidarity, Equality, Sus- tainability’, with commitments aimed at narrowing labour market gaps and enhancing women’s participation in eco- nomic and social life. DELIBERATIONS G20 leaders first addressed gender equal- ity at the London Summit in 2009, with 3% of their total declaration. After the Seoul Summit in 2010, with 1%, their attention generally grew, although unevenly, in both size and scope. It fell to a low at Cannes in 2011 of 0.4% and Los Cabos in 2012 to 2%. It rose at St Petersburg in 2013 to 4% but declined at Brisbane in 2014 to 3%, followed by a marked rise to 14% at Antalya in 2015 and 8% at Hangzhou in 2016, and returned back to 14% at Hamburg in 2017. In Buenos Aires in 2018, it dropped to 8% but rebounded at Osaka in 2019 to 23% – the highest share at any summit. It fell again in Riyadh in 2021 to 12%, edged up in Rome in 2022 to 16%, and declined
At the 2025 Johannesburg Summit, leaders have an opportunity to turn rhetoric into measurable action by closing labour gaps, embedding accountability, and advancing women’s participation across economies and emerging sectors G20 performance on gender equality
Julia Kulik, director, strategic initiatives and public engagement, G20 Research Group
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