The Global Gender Gap Report 2022 — released by the World Economic Forum last month — said countries will take another 132 years, compared with 136 in 2021, to close the gap between men and women in the workforce. Overall, the gap has widened compared with before the pandemic and the lack of equity for women, particularly in management roles, has become a crisis. And the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated a long-term global trend of more women founding their own businesses, according to the professional social networking site LinkedIn. Sue Duke, vice president of global public policy and economic graph at LinkedIn, which provides insights and data to research including the Forum's report, talks to host Mustafa Alrawi about the risks and opportunities involved in closing the gender gap. In this episodeLinkedIn's perspective on the gender gap (0m 09s)The best practice for closing the gender gap (4m 49s)Reimagining work to achieve equity (11m 36s)The benefits from closing the gap (15m 13s)Read moreBucking Covid-19 trend, Saudi women take job market by stormGender equality should be a truly universal aspirationGender equality is critical to UAE’s global competitiveness, economy minister says

Source: The North Africa Journal August 10, 2022 06:01 UTC