{"id":367848,"date":"2017-11-02T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=367848"},"modified":"2017-11-02T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:23:29","slug":"gender-equality-gap-worsens-for-women-world-economic-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/gender-equality-gap-worsens-for-women-world-economic-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender equality gap worsens for women – World Economic Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"
Inequality between men and women across the world has worsened over the past year, a report suggests.<\/p>\n
It is the first time that data from the World Economic Forum (WEF) has shown a year-on-year worsening of the gender gap since it began charting it in 2006.<\/p>\n
The report ranks 144 countries to compare women’s economic opportunities, education, political participation and health with men.<\/p>\n
Women are measured as having 68% of the chances and outcomes that men have.<\/p>\n
This is slightly down from the 68.3% measured last year.<\/p>\n
But\u00a0the group says the overall gender gap in all of the areas of equality it monitors would take 100 years to close at the current rate.<\/p>\n
That is well up from the 83 years predicted in 2016.<\/p>\n