Geneva, March 24 - A new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO) emphasized that women earn less and hold fewer leadership positions while inequalities with men persist today.
In 2025, women earned 52.4 percent of the total labor income of men worldwide, compared to 49.4 percent recorded in 2015, according to the document from the aforementioned specialized United Nations agency in a review of the last 10 years.
Among salaried workers, women earned on average 78 cents for every dollar earned by men annually, added the ILO in its recent report.
On the other hand, although they represented 40.1 percent of employment, women held 30.5 percent of managerial positions worldwide in 2025, compared to 26.9 percent recorded a decade ago.
At the current pace of change, gender parity in managerial positions remains a distant prospect, the report noted.
In Central and South Asia, the proportion of women in managerial positions decreased over the period mentioned, falling from 15.1 percent in 2015 to 11.6 percent in 2025.
Meanwhile, in Western Asia and North Africa, women hold fewer than one in five managerial positions.
Among the factors contributing to this situation—the ILO pointed out—are unequal access to education and training, the disproportionate burden of unpaid care work, pay opacity, and weak enforcement of anti-discrimination legal frameworks.
