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Before the coronavirus, the World Economic Forum estimated that it would take a century before women worldwide reached gender equality. Now, the WEF’s latest report finds that it will take 36 more years.
The annual report looks at equality across 156 different countries in four different categories: economic participation and opportunity, political power, education and health, and survival.
The WEF estimates that reaching gender equality in politics would take 145.5 years. The report is a reminder of all the work ahead, both in the United States and globally.
Many of the countries at the top of the list in terms of equality—Iceland, Finland, Norway, and New Zealand, for example—all have strong economic policies that help women, such as paid sick leave.
It’s important to note that a country’s wealth doesn’t mean greater gender equality, said Michelle Holder, an associate professor of economics at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
None of the world’s seven richest countries were in the Top 10 of the report. The United States ranks 30th in gender equality, behind many similar countries, as well as countries with much higher rates of poverty.
That is in part because the United States already had deep economic inequality before the pandemic, especially in terms of race and gender.
Holder also said that no Asian, Middle Eastern, or Latin American country landed in the Top 10 in terms of equality.
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In 50 words write about WOMEN’S EQUALITY IN BRAZIL.
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Reaching gender equality in politics will take 36 more years.
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