Gequality
Gender inequality, in this day and age, is crazy. And yet, as the 2021 WEF Gender Gap report shows, it persists. We are only 68% of the way to overall gender parity. It’s worst in political empowerment (22%) and economic participation and opportunity (58%). It will take 267 years to close the gender-pay gap if current trends continue. In the fastest growing jobs, women are especially underrepresented: only 14% in cloud computing for example. COVID-19 has exacerbated this inequality, with more women losing their jobs (5%) than men (3.9%). Men, it’s time to take up the cause of gequality.
— Wayne Visser
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