HR pros are aware that there is gender inequality in the workplace, and according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, the world has made only incremental improvements. However, the Report does predict the year things will be equal for the sexes in the workplace. And you won’t be here to experience it.
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According to a news release, the gender gap for economic participation and opportunity among the 142 countries measured now stands at 60 percent worldwide, having closed by just 4 percent from 2006, when the World Economic Forum first started measuring it.
Projections based on this trajectory, with all else remaining equal, have determined it will take 81 years for the world to close the gender inequality gap completely—meaning in the year 2095!
If it’s on your bucket list to be there when this happens, you will have to travel to Scandinavia, as the Nordic nations remain the most gender-equal in the world. The release says last year’s leading nations—Iceland (1), Finland (2), Norway (3), and Sweden (4) were joined this year by Denmark, which climbed from eighth place to fifth. The United States is ranked at number 20.
Read the full report at http://wef.ch/gendergap14.