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Moving Backwards: Ten Years of Progress on Global Gender Parity Stalls in 2017
November 01, 2017
GENEVA, Nov. 1 -- The World Economic Forum issued the following news release:

A decade of slow but steady progress on improving parity between the sexes came to a halt in 2017, with the global gender gap widening for the first time since the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006.

The findings in this year's report, published today, show that, overall, 68 percent of the global gender gap has been closed. This is a slight de . . .

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