GENEVA: A decade of slow progress towards better parity between the sexes has screeched to a halt, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said Thursday, warning the global gender gap was now widening. But the global trend now seems to have made a U-turn, especially in workplaces, where full gender equality is not expected to materialize until 2234, WEF said in a report. Thursday’s report said that at the current rate of progress, it would now take a full 100 years on average to achieve overall gender equality. ‘Shift into reverse’“In 2017, we should not be seeing progress towards gender parity shift into reverse,” Saadia Zahidi, WEF head of education, gender and work, said in a statement. The picture is not all bleak: the march towards gender equality in education could reach the finish line within a mere 13 years, it said.

Source: Manila Times November 02, 2017 12:00 UTC