Women tend to live longer than men. In 2021, this difference amounted to a 5-year gap in global life expectancy: the average life expectancy was 73.8 years for women versus 68.4 years for men. Read more in Free Think Why…
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Gender gap rises in Israel as women’s gains are offset by losses – analysis By Aaron Poris
29 September 2023Views: 207Israel scores well for gender equality in health care, education, and labor force participation, but it lags behind in workplace advancement opportunities, sports, and the government. Read more in jpost Gender gap rises in Israel as women’s gains are offset…
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At current rates of progress, it will take 131 years to close the global gender gap, but some countries are much closer to achieving gender parity than others. Nordic countries occupy 4 of the report’s top-5 list of countries with…
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The Gender Gap Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg for Black Women By Sonya George
25 June 2020Views: 1,188In our study of Women in the Workplace, we found that African American or Black women face larger hurdles to advancement compared to their Caucasian or White counterparts. In fact, they are the least likely group to feel included in…
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Closing the Gender Gap in Sales Leadership By Frances Brooks Taplett , Roger Premo , Marina Nekrasova , and Maegan Becker
4 January 2020Views: 1,180Sales leadership has a gender gap problem. Even though women meet their sales quotas as well as or better than men, there’s a dearth of women in top sales roles. Indeed, there are fewer women leaders in sales than in…
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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Women Supporting Each Other at Work Anne Welsh McNulty
19 September 2018Views: 1,258According to a 2016 McKinsey report, Women in the Workplace, white men make up 36% of entry-level corporate jobs, and white women make up 31%. But at the very first rung above that, those numbers change to 47% for white…
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In Canada, women working full-time still earn, on average, 74 cents for every dollar a man makes, and this country’s wage gap remains well above the average for Organization for Economic Development and Co-operation member countries. Every six days in…
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These Are the Best and Worst Countries for the Gender Pay Gap across Europe By Claire Lancaster
27 December 2017Views: 1,247In both the UK and Germany women are paid more than 20% less than their male counterparts, despite the UK leading the the ranks for female career progression Read more in the culturetrip These Are the Best and Worst Countries…
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The World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index 2016, maps the best – and worst – countries in the world to be a woman. This is based on economic, political, educational and health criteria. Read more in raconteur Where is the…