Media Advisory
Launch of the Gender Snapshot 2025 report
WHAT: Press briefing to launch the Gender Snapshot 2025 report
PARTICIPANTS:
- Bjørg Sandkjær, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)
- Sarah Hendriks, Director of the Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division at UN Women
- Papa Alioune Seck, Chief of the Research and Data Section at UN Women
WHEN: Monday, 15 September 2025, 3.00 to 3.30 p.m. (EDT)
WHERE: UN Press Briefing Room (S-237) and livestreamed via UN Web TV.
WHY: The upcoming Gender Snapshot 2025 report by UN Women and UN DESA shows that the world is at a crossroads. With just five years from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deadline, none of the gender equality targets are on track – but it does not have to be this way. Gender equality is within reach and the report demonstrates how targeted investments in areas such as digital inclusion, poverty reduction and climate action could transform not only the lives of women and girls but entire societies and economies. Ahead of world leaders meeting at the UN in New York for the 80th General Assembly, the Gender Snapshot report makes it clear that the choice is urgent: Invest in women and girls now, or risk losing another generation of progress.
NOTE TO EDITORS
Embargoed copies of the report and embargoed interviews with spokespeople are available upon request. Please contact the UN Women Media Team media.team@unwomen.org or Helen Rosengren, UN DESA rosengrenh@un.org
About the Gender Snapshot Report
The Gender Snapshot is the world’s leading source of data on gender equality and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Drawing from more than 100 data sources, it tracks progress for women and girls across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals. With just five years left to deliver on the 2030 Agenda, and three decades since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, the report offers both a stark warning and a clear way forward. Anchoring the Beijing+30 Action Agenda, it identifies six priority areas where urgent, accelerated action is needed to achieve gender equality for all women and girls by 2030.
About UN Women
UN Women exists to advance women’s rights, gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. As the lead UN entity on gender equality, we shift laws, institutions, social behaviours and services to close the gender gap and build an equal world for all women and girls. We keep the rights of women and girls at the centre of global progress – always, everywhere. Because gender equality is not just what we do. It is who we are.
About the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)
Rooted in the United Nations Charter and guided by the transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN DESA upholds the development pillar of the United Nations. The Department brings the global community together, working towards common solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. UN DESA helps countries translate their global commitments into national action in the economic, social and environmental spheres.