In this year’s Global Gender Gap report, 156 countries have been benchmarked with the sombre tidings that there has been a step back compared to 2020 and as an extra 36 years have been added to the time remaining to close the gender gap. The 2018 report had stated that the world had closed 68 percent of the global gender gap, as measured in terms of four key pillars: economic opportunity; political empowerment; educational attainment; and health and survival. These figures had seen marginal improvement in the intervening years.