Why is progress toward gender equality stalling? Every year, the Global Gender Gap Report tracks how #women are faring in leadership, politics and the workplace. In the 2025 edition, Silja Baller, Head of Economic Inclusion at the World Economic Forum, unpacks the latest data. This year’s findings show women’s hiring into senior leadership roles has slowed, and the rise of #AI is disrupting jobs where women are overrepresented. Yet there are also encouraging gains: women’s representation in gove

From the triple bubble to inclusive AI and the quantum economy, here’s a short explainer of phrases you might hear from Davos in January. They’re a glimpse of the range of perspectives you’ll find at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, which for 50 years has sought to embody the ‘spirit of Davos’: an attitude of openness and productive collaboration. In a time of deepening global fragmentation, the 2026 event will foreground that focus once more through its theme: ‘The Spirit of Dialogue’

For more than 50 years, the World Economic Forum has been a place where leaders from business, government and civil society come together, not to compete, but to understand, collaborate and act. In a world that’s increasingly complex and interconnected, the Forum offers a trusted space to foster dialogue, rebuild trust and drive long-term cooperation. Five decades of collective action later, it remains firmly focused on the future, helping leaders navigate transformative change and work together