Are you ready to wait 229 years to overcome gender inequality

This year’s Global Gender Gap Report published by the World Economic Forum -2016 (Global Gender Gap Report 2016) has an interesting feature. The authors offer online compute how many years it will take for each country to overcome gender inequality.

The response of Armenia. 229 years, given current trends. While in the case of maintaining at least 107 countries present trends it will take 83 years to eliminate the gender gap, that is born in these countries today, women can see results and equity.

According to the report, taking into account the size and Gap decline registered last year in the field of economy, it is impossible to fill the gap in this area even in the next 170 years. After a peak in 2013, the gender gap in economic returns than in 2008. At the same time, based on current trends, the gap in education can be completed during the next 10 years.

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