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Gender Equality Advisory Council 2025
The G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council (GEAC) is an independent advisory body that provides recommendations on gender equality to G7 leaders and ministers. The council brings together a diverse group of gender equality experts, including academics, activists, businesspeople and policymakers, to ensure a broad and inclusive approach to gender equality.
Canada established GEAC during its 2018 presidency, and the council has since been convened 6 times. Since its founding, GEAC has submitted meaningful recommendations to G7 leaders for advancing gender equality and empowering women.
For example, the G7 launched an annual Dashboard for Gender Gaps in 2022 based on a GEAC recommendation. This tool tracks G7 efforts on gender equality and helps hold members accountable by identifying gaps and measuring progress.
Gender equality is not just a moral imperative – it is a strategic one.
Gender inequalities continue to mark economies, societies and political decision-making around the world. That’s why gender equality must remain an integral part of global discussions.
As the 2025 G7 President, Canada continues to support the work of GEAC, an independent body established under our 2018 Presidency to provide recommendations to G7 Leaders on gender equality issues. The Council calls for meaningful action to advance gender equality and apply gender perspectives across priority areas. Integrating gender perspectives across all areas of decision-making is smart policy that can drive economic prosperity, sustainable development, and democratic resilience.
The G7 Dashboard on Gender Gaps provides an annual overview of key indicators on gender gaps covering a range of socioeconomic areas across G7 countries.
In 2022, the G7 asked the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to develop the first monitoring and accountability mechanism to gather, analyze and provide information on G7 commitments to achieve gender equality. The dashboards provide internationally comparable and transparent data.
View the G7 Dashboard on Gender Gaps by member:
The data for the United States is not included this year.
During its 2025 G7 presidency, Canada undertook an impact assessment of GEAC to understand how it has shaped G7 outcomes to advance gender equality, review its working methods, and capture best practices. The assessment covers the timeframe 2018 to 2024. Findings included the following:
GEAC has helped ensure that gender equality stays on the G7 agenda.
GEAC has played a positive role in advancing gender equality outcomes through the G7, with direct links or a strong correlation between GEAC recommendations and G7 commitments in several instances – most notably in the establishment of the G7 Dashboard for Gender Gaps.
The focus of GEAC recommendations generally overlaps with that of G7 commitments, indicating a correlation between GEAC and G7 efforts.
Factors contributing to GEAC’s success include:
The G7 presidency making gender equality a priority
Timely support from the G7 presidency
Access to G7 decision-makers
Read the GEAC Impact Assessment Report
March 18 and 19, 2025
Ottawa, Ontario
Source: Official website of Canada's 2025 G7 presidency
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