// ECONOMIC SECURITY: GENDER EQUALITY
G7 performance on gender equality
Gender equality, once central to G7 cooperation, risks losing prominence amid geopolitical and economic pressures. Sustaining progress will depend on renewed commitment, stronger institutional support and more effective implementation of commitments
W hen G7 leaders gather in Évian in June, gender equality will occupy a markedly different place on the agenda than it once did. Previously framed as a mainstreamed component of G7 cooperation, embedded in economic, development and foreign policy priorities, it now risks being edged out by a convergence of geopolitical crises, economic pressures and a more fragmented political consensus among members.
summits up to 2025. G7 communiqués averaged 878 words on gender equal- ity at each summit, for 6% of the total words from 1975 to 2025. The most attention came in 2017 and 2018. The 2017 communiqué contained 3,888 words (for 45% of the total) and increased to 5,086 words (45%) in 2018, the most extensively mainstreamed amount. The 2024 communiqué con- tained 2,178 words (11%) and the 2025 ones contained 310 (6%).
Julia Kulik, director of strategic initiatives and public engagement, G7 Research Group
DELIBERATION G7 leaders first addressed gender equal- ity in 1990, but not consistently until 2001. Their attention steadily increased from 2014 until 2019. The issue was absent in 2020 but reappeared at all
G7 PERFORMANCE ON GENDER EQUALITY 1975-2025
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