{"id":466089,"date":"2026-09-25T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/09\/25\/al-ritmo-attuale-la-parita-di-genere-ci-sara-solo-nel-2197-il-tetto-di-cristallo-e-ancora-intatto\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T18:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:06:56","slug":"at-the-current-rate-gender-equality-will-not-be-achieved-until-2197-the-glass-ceiling-remains-intact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/09\/25\/at-the-current-rate-gender-equality-will-not-be-achieved-until-2197-the-glass-ceiling-remains-intact\/","title":{"rendered":"At the current rate, gender equality will not be achieved until 2197; the “glass ceiling” remains intact"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 We will have to wait another 171 years: gender equality will be achieved in 2197. This is rather late compared with the United Nations\u2019 Sustainable Development Goals, which set the target for 2030, but this is the projection made by the UN based on the current rate of progress. Therefore, in a resolution on the EU\u2019s priorities for the 71st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW71) \u2013 to be held in March 2027 in New York \u2013 the European Economic and Social Committee<\/strong> (EESC) draws attention to the obstacles that continue to limit women\u2019s economic independence and their presence in leadership roles<\/strong>, to the prevalence of gender-based violence, and to the need to strengthen cooperation between EU institutions, Member States, social partners and civil society. <\/p>\n

In the resolution \u2013 drafted by the rapporteurs Giulia Barbucci<\/strong>, Juliane Marie Neiiendam<\/strong> and Christa Schweng<\/strong> and adopted in the plenary session \u2013 the EESC calls on the EU institutions, the Member States, and the international community to take more proactive and ambitious measures. \u201cCSW71 represents a crucial opportunity to turn promises into measurable progress. With 2030 fast approaching, employers, trade unions, and civil society must help to advance gender equality through decent work, entrepreneurship, leadership, digital skills, quality care services, and climate action,\u201d the three rapporteurs stated<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The text highlights the fact that \u201cprogress towards gender equality remains uneven, fragile, and increasingly under threat at national, European, and global levels,\u201d and that \u201cwomen and girls continue to face structural and systemic barriers that limit their participation, economic independence, safety, and full enjoyment of human rights.\u201d Therefore, \u201cit is necessary to accelerate progress towards equal access to decent work, equal pay for work of equal value, social protection and opportunities in entrepreneurship and leadership roles<\/strong>\u201d. Added to this is the need to pay particular attention to women entrepreneurs and women-led SMEs, which \u201cremain under-represented despite their essential contribution to innovation, employment, competitiveness, local development and Europe\u2019s economic resilience.\u201d <\/p>\n

In short, the “glass ceiling” is still very much in place, remaining \u201ca pressing problem.\u201d According to the United Nations\u2019 Gender Snapshot 2026, which monitors progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, women account for around 40 per cent of employees in companies worldwide, but hold just 5.8 per cent of chief executive positions in the listed companies examined in the report and only 25.1 per cent of seats on boards of directors. <\/p>\n

Achieving gender equality is the fifth of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. It covers areas ranging from discrimination and gender-based violence to unpaid care work, from political and economic participation to sexual and reproductive health, and right through to access to economic resources and technology. However, the EESC believes that Goal 5 \u201ccannot be achieved in isolation, as gender equality is closely linked to progress in the fight against poverty and in policies on health, education, employment, the reduction of inequalities, and climate action.\u201d <\/p>\n

In particular, the document emphasises that gender-based violence remains one of the most significant obstacles to equality and empowerment<\/strong> and that preventing and combating it \u2013 including when it occurs online \u2013 must be \u201ca political priority, alongside effective protection, survivor support, and access to justice.\u201d Almost one in three women aged 15 or over \u2013 around 840 million worldwide \u2013 has experienced intimate partner violence or sexual violence at some point in her life, a figure that has remained virtually unchanged since 2000. In the last 12 months, 316 million women \u2013 equivalent to 11 per cent of those aged 15 and over \u2013 have experienced physical or sexual violence at the hands of a partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a report, the EESC condemns these issues and stresses the need to accelerate progress on decent work, pay, social protection, opportunities in entrepreneurship and leadership roles, and the fight against violence against women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7874,"featured_media":466079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705,29788],"tags":[25847,28689,25818,27070,31086,35921,33394,27672,29793],"class_list":["post-466089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-diritti-en","tag-eesc-en","tag-parita-di-genere-en","tag-politics","tag-prevention-en","tag-report-en","tag-tutele","tag-ue","tag-violence-en","tag-violenza-contro-le-donne-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466090,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466089\/revisions\/466090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}