Global gender parity gap may take 134 years to close: WEF

According to the World Economic Forum 2024 Gender Gap Report, the global gender gap only moved 0.1% lower year over year. If the pace continues at this rate, it will take up to 134 years to fully close this disparity.

World Economic Forum managing director Saadia Zahidi joins Catalysts to give insight into this report, breaking down the leaders in gender parity and catalysts for improvement.

Zahidi lays out two factors that could improve the global gender gap: "So one is the care systems in the most successful countries tend to be those that build out care infrastructure and ensure that it's essentially not just women that are having to provide child care and elder care. Some have gone for public systems, some have gone for privately funded systems... The second big area is getting more women into political participation and into decision-making roles that actually then end up changing policy."

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This post was written by Nicholas Jacobino