Over the past five articles, this series has explored what the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report makes visible — and what it leaves largely unexamined — when read through the lived reality of women in leadership. Taken together, the insights from the five articles form a coherent picture of where leadership systems are holding — and where they are quietly failing.
The hard truth about breadwinning wives and masculinity is this: society has changed, but our expectations of men have not fully caught up. Men still feel pressure to provide. Women still tend to prefer higher-earning men. And couples still navigate outdated assumptions baked into modern relationships.
At the same time, the country’s growth has not been inclusive. Women, who constitute half the population, remain largely excluded from productive sectors. Even when they work, they are concentraed in informal, low-income activities with little security or opportunity for advancement.
As Zinnya del Villar, Responsible AI expert at UN Women, explains, AI is first and foremost a question of data. To develop machine learning models, for example, or even generative AI tools, we give the algorithm data on which it can train. However, in all the data collected, there are real blind spots on certain segments of society: women, racialized people (according to the Berkeley Haas Center study, 25% of the AIs studied contained both sexist and racist stereotypes).
Fatherhood is in flux in many contemporary societies today. Over the last 75 years, women have entered the paid workforce en masse. Now that mothers are contributing income to their families, fathers’ role in childcare has increased, too. According to recent time diary studies, the average daily minutes that men spent in childcare have tripled since the 1960s.
Participants to this workshop will gain a clear understanding of what shapes reputation and why it matters today — discovering personal branding as a mindset that helps professionals understand how they are perceived, communicate with purpose, and strengthen their presence authentically.
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