Women Take Note: Global Gender Equality in 2095
In the nine years the World Economic Forum has measured the global gender gap, the world has seen only marginal improvements in equality for women in the workplace. Their latest report finds the gender gap for economic participation and opportunity now stands at 60% worldwide, or 4% since it’s first measure in 2006. Based on this trajectory, with all else remaining equal, it will take 81 years - until 2095 - for the world to close this gap completely.
The U.S. had a global rank of 20: It scored high in economic participation and opportunity for women, but low in educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment. Iceland, Finland, and Norway ranked in the top three best places to be a working woman, in that order.
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