GENEVA: The economic gender gap could take 170 years to close after progress towards parity between the sexes suffered “a dramatic slowdown,” the World Economic Forum (WEF) said in a report on Wednesday.
Despite the fact women have made major gains in educational achievement -- catching or surpassing men in 95 countries -- women still earn less in exchange for longer hours, are less likely to have a job and are far less likely to have a senior or managerial post, the report said.
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