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Jul 14, 2022

Gender parity may still be more than 100 years away

Diane Swonk of Grant Thornton joins us on a day where stocks have opened lower and the producer price index is up. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is entertaining the idea of a price cap on Russian oil. The World Economic Forum once calculated that it would take a century to reach gender parity around the globe. Now … it says it’ll take even longer.

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It will take 132 years to achieve global gender parity, World Economic Forum report finds
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That’s a significant increase from the pre-pandemic estimate of 100 years. The pandemic worsened existing political, economic, educational and health inequalities between men and women.

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It will take 132 years to achieve global gender parity, World Economic Forum report finds

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