US-China Law Review, February 2018, Vol.15, No. 2, 109-114 doi:10.17265/1548-6605/2018.02.004 Gender Equlity at the Davos Forum: Economic Participation and Justice Ana Luiza da Gama e Souza Estácio de Sá University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Lara Denise Góes da Costa Brazilian War College, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil This paper analyzes gender equality from the point of view of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Davos Forum, based on the results published in the Gender Gap Report 2017. First, the Davos Forum will be presented as a relevant global non-state actor, and its proposal to measure the gap gender among 144 nations. In second place, we analyzed data on gender equality, especially regarding economic participation and access to opportunities. Finally, we will point to some viable demands for justice in the private space. Keywords: gender gap; World Economic Forum; global justice Tha Gap Gender According to World Economic Forum Data from the latest World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Report 1 show that the global labour force participation declines and this decline has been particularly accentuated for women. In terms of income, earned incomes have been increasing, but this upward trend has been steeper for men than for women. Therefore, according to the report, the growth in prosperity is not equitably distributed along gender lines. Putting in perspective the position that women occupy in the corporate structure, only 22% of individuals holding senior managerial positions are women. The demands of gender equality today are being updated to the new global configuration and in terms of rights, it means adding to the local perspective the global economic context, in which the State is inserted. Economic globalization has transformed the world politically and brought enormous challenges to the realization of human rights. This process, because of the combination of several factors, shifted the center of state power to the economy, from the public space to the private space, and this structural translation profoundly impacted the ideal of realizing human rights, since the ideal of change social relationship focused on the human person necessarily passes through the material conditions of existence for the realization of citizenship. Ana Luiza da Gama e Souza, Ph.D. in Philosophy, associate professor, Law Department, Estácio de Sá University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lara Denise Góes da Costa, Ph.D. in Sociology, adjunct professor, Political theory Department, Brazilian War College, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1 http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2017.pdf. DAVID PUBLISHING D