Twenty years after the first measurement, the world has closed 69.2% of its gender gap and no economy has yet reached full parity. At the current pace, parity is 120 years away, though Mexico ranks among the ten economies that have advanced fastest since 2006. The 20th edition of the World Economic Forum's report shows where change accelerated, where it stalled, and what is holding women back from leadership.

Exhaustion doesn't come from the hours. It comes from everything that goes unseen: coordinating, anticipating, remembering, holding it all together. That mental load travels from work to home and back again, and it ends up mistaken for poor organization when it's really exhaustion. What stays invisible can't be managed, and what isn't managed gets lost: focus, talent, energy.

62% of full-time working mothers in the U.S. say balancing work and family is difficult — compared to 47% of fathers — and in most dual-income households, women still take on more household chores and more caregiving, even when they work the same hours. Pew Research Center's new report, based on 2,242 families, documents this clearly. The question that matters to us: what about Mexico?

In more than two thirds of the world, birth rates have fallen below replacement level. Employment, housing and education remain key factors, but mobile phones are playing an increasingly decisive role.

80% of employees say that their caregiving responsibilities affect their productivity — but only 25% of employers acknowledge it. This perception gap has a tangible cost: absenteeism, turnover, and permanent exits from the labor market.

In 190 economies analyzed, women have only two-thirds of the legal rights that men have — and no country offers full legal equality. The World Bank’s eleventh report reveals that the problem is not just the law: even where formal equality exists, mechanisms to enforce it are incomplete and implementation is weak. Removing these barriers could increase global GDP by 15 to 20%.