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Roberta Metsola and the Council presidency sign Directive (EU) 2022/2381 in Strasbourg, requiring large EU listed companies to have at least 40% of non-executive seats, or 33% of all board seats, held by the underrepresented sex by 30 June 2026.

Directive (EU) 2023/970, signed in Strasbourg on 10 May 2023, gives job applicants the right to see a salary range, bans questions about pay history and makes employers with 100 or more workers publish gender pay gap figures.

The 2023 Fortune 500 list counts 52 companies led by women, 10.4% of America's largest businesses and up from 44 a year earlier, the first time the share has passed 10% in the list's 69 years.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee gave the 2023 Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi, then in Tehran's Evin prison, for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran, echoing the "Woman - Life - Freedom" protests.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards Harvard's Claudia Goldin the 2023 economics prize, unshared, for advancing understanding of women's labour market outcomes; she is the third woman to win it.

Thousands of Icelandic women and non-binary people stopped paid and unpaid work on 24 October 2023, the first full-day women's strike since 1975, over the pay gap and gender-based violence; Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir stayed home too.

Meeting in Congress at Versailles on 4 March 2024, France's deputies and senators voted 780 to 72 to add women's guaranteed freedom to have an abortion to the Constitution, the first country to do so.

Governor Kay Ivey signed SB159, shielding IVF patients, clinics and suppliers from lawsuits and prosecution over damaged or destroyed embryos, three weeks after the LePage ruling halted treatment.

The Taliban's Ministry of Justice published the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice law on 21 August 2024: 35 articles that make women cover their faces and bodies, bar their voices from being heard in public and stop them travelling without a male guardian.

Bumble said founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd would take back the chief executive job in mid-March 2025, succeeding former Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who resigned for personal reasons.

Goldman Sachs ended its policy of taking companies public in the US and Western Europe only if they had at least two diverse board members, one of them a woman, citing legal developments after Nasdaq's diversity rule was struck down.

At Mar-a-Lago, President Trump signs Executive Order 14216, directing his Domestic Policy Council to propose within 90 days ways to protect IVF access and sharply cut its out-of-pocket and health plan costs.

The House of Commons voted 379 to 137 on 17 June 2025 for Tonia Antoniazzi's amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, taking women out of the criminal law on abortion for ending their own pregnancies.

In the Oval Office, the White House announces a deal under which EMD Serono sells its IVF drugs Gonal-f, Ovidrel and Cetrotide at steep discounts through TrumpRx, plus a new standalone fertility benefit employers can offer.

Citigroup's board elected chief executive Jane Fraser as chair, ending the split of the two roles, with former chair John Dugan becoming lead independent director and Fraser receiving a one-time $25 million stock award.

On 25 November 2025 Italy's Chamber of Deputies unanimously gave final approval to a law making femicide a crime of its own, article 577-bis of the Criminal Code, punished with life imprisonment.

Texas's Woman and Child Protection Act takes effect, letting private citizens sue anyone who makes, mails or provides abortion pills into Texas for at least $100,000 per violation, while barring suits against the woman.

At CSW70 in New York on 9 March 2026, the Commission on the Status of Women adopted its Agreed Conclusions on access to justice for women and girls by recorded vote, 37 to 1 with 6 abstentions, after the United States broke the usual consensus.

Dow appointed chief operating officer Karen S. Carter, a 30-year company veteran, to succeed Jim Fitterling as chief executive on 1 July 2026, which Fortune says makes her the first Black woman to lead a major US chemical company.

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 received Royal Assent on 29 April 2026, and its section 241 took effect at once: no woman commits an offence under abortion law by acting in relation to her own pregnancy.

At a maternal healthcare event in the Oval Office, Trump announces a proposed rule letting employers offer fertility benefits outside their health plans, a day after HHS launched moms.gov for expecting and new mothers.

Fortune counts 55 women leading companies on the 2026 Fortune 500, 11% of the list and the highest share in its 72-year history, despite the exits of Oracle's Safra Catz, Fannie Mae's Priscilla Almodovar and Hershey's Michele Buck.

The 7 June 2026 deadline to write the Pay Transparency Directive into national law passed with only Italy, Slovakia and Malta (and, by some counts, Lithuania) done; the Netherlands, Sweden, Czechia and Denmark said they would apply it from 1 January 2027.

From 30 June 2026 large listed companies across the EU are expected to have at least 40% of non-executive board seats, or 33% of all board seats, held by the underrepresented sex, the target date set in the Women on Boards Directive.

The 71st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women runs from 8 to 19 March 2027 in New York, with the priority theme of speeding up gender equality under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Employers in the EU with 150 or more workers must file their first gender pay gap reports, covering 2026, by 7 June 2027 under the Pay Transparency Directive; those with 250 or more workers must then report every year.

Member states must write Directive (EU) 2024/1385, the EU's first law on violence against women, into national law by 14 June 2027, including new crimes of female genital mutilation, forced marriage, cyber stalking and sharing intimate images without consent.