According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2018, published yesterday by the World Economic Forum, the world has collectively closed 68% of the overall gender gap, as measured across four key pillars: economic opportunity, political empowerment, educational attainment, and health and survival. Stagnation in the proportion of women in the workplace and women’s declining representation in politics, coupled with greater inequality in accessing health and education, offset improvements in wage equality and the number of women in professional positions, leaving the global gender gap only slightly reduced in 2018 compared to 2017.

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