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Welcome to your weekly digest of stories about how the gender gap plays out around the world – in business, health, education and politics.
This week we launched The Global Gender Gap Report 2015. How wide is the gender gap in 145 countries around the world, across four different categories: Health, education, economics and politics? 118 years to close the economic gender gap. Download the complete 2015 Global Gender Gap report. (World Economic Forum)
Gender gap calculator 2015. A tool to measure the gender gap in your country. (World Economic Forum)
6 video highlights on gender equality in 2015. (World Economic Forum)
6 things to know about the gender gap. (World Economic Forum)
4 forces still holding women back. (World Economic Forum)
10 most gender equal countries in sub-Saharan Africa. (World Economic Forum)
Top 10 most gender equal countries in Asia-Pacific. (World Economic Forum)
Top 10 most gender equal countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. (World Economic Forum)
Top 10 most gender equal countries in Europe and Central Asia.(World Economic Forum)
Top 10 most gender equal countries in the Middle East and North Africa. (World Economic Forum)
10 years of the Global Gender Gap Report. What has changed? (World Economic Forum)
What ISIS has done to the lives of women? (World Economic Forum)
Texas women are inducing their own abortions. (The Atlantic)
One female entrepreneur is offering big money to women business owners. (Fortune)
Does the “women’s vote” in US politics actually exist? (Quartz)
No, we’re not “bad negotiators”: stop blaming women for earning less money than men. (The Huffington Post)
Mark Zuckerberg will take two months of parental leave. Is it on full pay? (Wired)
Statistic of the Week:
118 years
How old someone born today will be before the global economic gender gap closes on current progress.
World Economic Forum
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Author: Saadia Zahidi is a Senior Director, Head of Gender Parity and Human Capital and Constituents at the World Economic Forum
Image: A staff member is reflected in a mirror as she walks at Fast Retailing’s new flagship Uniqlo store during a press preview in Tokyo March 14, 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
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