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Our sample consists of more than 10 million finance-related tweets posted in 2021 from 154 countries covered in the Global Gender Gap Report, which rates country-level gender equality performance based on four dimensions: economic participation & opportunity, educational attainment, health & survival, and political empowerment.

This “social listening” approach allows the inclusion of the broadest set of countries and the widest range of population groups possible. We find that economic gender equality is associated with a smaller gender gap in the number of finance-related tweets posted by female versus male users, with this effect more pronounced for higher-income countries. In contrast, political gender equality is associated with worse gender disparity in finance-related tweets.