How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023
Radio Davos22 Jun 2023

How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023

In most parts of the world, the gender gap - the difference in opportunities and outcomes for women compared to men - is closing. But closing so slowly that it would take, at the current rate of progress, until 2154 for men and women to be truly equal.

That statistic comes from the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, an extensive, annual survey whose latest edition has just been published.

In this episode, World Economic Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi picks some highlights from the report - which has lots to say about the state of gender inequality in the post-pandemic, cost-of-living squeezed world.

We also hear from Sue Duke, Vice-President of LinkedIn where she heads public policy.

Sue talks about the challenges facing women in the workplace, particularly in the area of STEM - science, technology, engineering and maths - and how tricky is still is for women to get to the top of companies (the 'C-suite').

For a transcript, go to the episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gender-gap-report-2023

Please note the final episode of our AI series will be published next week.

Read more on the Gender Gap Report:

Get the report here: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2023

Analysis:

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Economic shocks are wiping out progress on gender equality: Global Gender Gap Report 2023

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