The gender gap grows - #TheAgenda with Stephen Cole
The Agenda • 8m 12s
The World Economic Forum has been publishing an annual Gender Gap Report for the past 15 years.
It examines the divide between men and women across the globe in four major areas – economics, education, healthcare and politics.
And while the gaps are closing in some of those areas, in others – notably economics, it’s clear that COVID has led to a widening of the gender divide – concluding the pandemic has pushed back gender parity by an entire generation.
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