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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Economic gender gap will take 217 years to close: WEF report -Tina Edwin

Economic gender gap will take 217 years to close: WEF report -Tina Edwin

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published Published on Mar 8, 2018   modified Modified on Mar 8, 2018
-The Hindu Business Line

‘Increased participation of women in economic activity can boost economy’

New Delhi:
When the theme for 2017 International Women’s Day was set as ‘Be Bold for Change’, little did anyone imagine that later that year Hollywood actress Ashley Judd would come out and speak up against film production and distribution house Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein who had sexually harassed her in the early years of her career.

Judd proved to be an inspiration for many other actresses in Hollywood and several other women elsewhere to share their own experiences of sexual harassment at work or by men who were in positions of power, something that was commonplace yet rarely debated widely.

But sexual harassment at work is only one of the many problems that women face. Economic inequality is another equally disturbing problem they face across the world.

So much so that the World Economic Forum in its 2017 edition of Global Gender Gap Report estimated that it would take 217 years for the economic gender gap to be closed, mostly because the gap has widened. Economic inequality includes disparity in pay for the same work done by a man and a woman.

The same report estimates gender gap in politics would take up to 99 years to be closed. The education specific gender gap is estimated be reduce to parity in next 13 years — but that’s cold comfort when the overall global gender gap can be closed only in 100 years across 106 countries that the report has been tracking since 2006.

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The Hindu Business Line, 7 March, 2018, https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/variety/economic-gender-gap-will-take-217-years-to-close-wef-report/article22970561.ece?homepage=true


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