It may take 131 years to rectify disparity amid ‘tepid progress’
The Republic’s weakest scores came in the political empowerment category with more than half of ministerial roles filled by men and a similar proportion of parliamentary seats being occupied by men.‘You can’t decarbonize without digitization, you can’t increase digitization without data centres’Overall, the WEF report indicates that little progress has been globally in the past year towards closing the gender gap which will take an estimated 131 years to resolve at current rates of progress.
Having closed by 68.4 per cent, the global disparity between men and women improved just 0.3 per cent since last year’s edition of the report with the overall rate of change “slowing considerably” in recent times. “The recovery from the shock and ensuing polycrisis has been slow and, so far, incomplete, and the current context, coupled with technological and climate change, risks causing further regression in women’s economic empowerment,” the report’s authors noted.
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