{"id":259566,"date":"2017-11-02T14:47:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=259566"},"modified":"2021-02-13T13:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T18:31:24","slug":"women-wont-have-equality-for-100-years-world-economic-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/women-wont-have-equality-for-100-years-world-economic-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Women won\u2019t have equality for 100 years \u2013 World Economic Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>More than others, women need a world revolution!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The equality gap between men and women would take 100 years to close at its current rate, an economic monitoring group has suggested.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time that data from the World Economic Forum (WEF) has shown a year-on-year worsening of the gender gap since it began charting it in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The report ranks 144 countries by economic opportunities, education, political participation and health.<\/p>\n<p>Women are measured as having 68% of the chances and outcomes that men have.<\/p>\n<p>This is slightly down from the 68.3% measured last year.<\/p>\n<p>The group predicts that it would take a century to close all areas of equality it monitors globally, well up from the 83 years predicted in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Gender parity is closest in areas of health and education, it says, but significant gaps in economic participation and political empowerment continue to endure across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Women will have to wait 217 years before they earn as much as men and are equally represented in the workplace, the figures suggest.<\/p>\n<p>Nordic countries remain among some of the world&#8217;s best for overall equality. Iceland tops the list with a 12% gender gap across all the WEF&#8217;s measures. Norway, Finland ands Sweden are all in the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda came fourth in the list for overall gender equality with a gap of 18%. The country has the highest share of women in parliament in the world &#8211; they occupy three in every five seats.<\/p>\n<p>Nicaragua, Slovenia, Ireland, New Zealand and the Philippines also made the top 10 on the Global Gender Gap rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Women in the Middle East and North Africa fared the worst, with war-torn Yemen coming last on the list with a gender equality score of just 52%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-41844875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-41844875<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: More than others, women need a world revolution! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":297747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}