International Women's Day 2025

International Women's Day 2025 will be celebrated this Saturday, March 8. To mark the occasion, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) invites you to delve into the lives of committed French-speaking women who are working tirelessly to bring about lasting, positive change in the world around them.

They are researchers, teachers, entrepreneurs, they are the many facets of the vitality of young French-speaking women.

Discover the first course this Saturday, March 8. It will feature researcher Rania Kassir, winner of the Prix Dolla Sarkis 2024, awarded by the AUF - Middle East.

International Women's Day is also an opportunity to ask ourselves:

How far have we come towards achieving gender equality in 2025?

After a historic electoral year in 2024, with almost half the world's population called to the polls, the year 2025 opens in a tense global context marked by unbridled political and social polarization of public opinion.

Gender equality issues are no exception to this trend.

And yet..,

According to data from the World Bank, inequalities between women and men continue to give cause for concern on a global scale:

Women still enjoy less than two-thirds of the legal rights accorded to men. The World Bank has examined the laws and regulations likely to prevent or hinder women's access to the labor market through a number of indicators (security in all its forms, mobility, access to employment, etc.). in all its forms, mobility, work, remuneration, marriage, parenthood, childcare, access to entrepreneurship and pension differences).

The global gender gap in employment has remained virtually unchanged over the past three decades. Barely half of all women work in the global workforce, compared with nearly three out of four men, earning an average of $7.7, while men earn $10. Women spend an average of 2.4 hours more per day on unpaid domestic tasks, which further limits their participation in the labor market.

Women are under-represented in the governance structures of political institutions and businesses. In high-income countries, women account for just over 30% of parliamentarians, compared with only 20% in middle-income countries.

And yet,

Reducing gender disparities in employment and entrepreneurship could increase global gross domestic product by more than 20%, according to the World Bank.

Source: www.auf.org/