It Will Take Another 170 Years To Achieve Equal Pay For Men And Women Worldwide.

The world economic forum, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, released the global gender gap report 2016 in 25. It analyzed and quantified the status of women in more than 100 countries and regions from four fields: health, education, economy and politics.

In the past year, the gap between men and women in terms of pay and employment has not narrowed, but has expanded dramatically. At the current rate, it is estimated that 170 years will be needed to achieve equality between men and women.

Surprisingly, in terms of salary and employment rate, men and women are

Is increasing rapidly.

In a report released last year, the world economic forum predicted that it would take another 118 years to achieve equality between men and women in the economic sphere. However, in this year's report, this prediction has been revised to 170 years, which is expected to be achieved by 2186.

The report said that the effort to promote equality of wages between men and women and employment equality has seen a "marked slowdown" and the gap between men and women has widened to the highest level since 2008.

In the past year, the average annual salary of a full-time woman was $10778, while the average annual salary of a full-time man was $19873.

This means that although global women work longer than men, the average salary is only about 50% of that of men.

In terms of employment rate, the employment rate of women is about 2/3 of that of men.

Saadiya Zahidi, member of the Executive Committee of the world economic forum, said: "these projections reflect the current situation and call for action."

"To ensure that half of the world's population can develop healthily and play a leading role in the world.

Competitiveness and future development have far-reaching implications, "the world economic forum said.

According to the report, Iceland ranked first in 8 consecutive years. Finland and Norway ranked second and third respectively, Sweden fourth.

It is striking that Rwanda has risen to fifth.

From the perspective of employment rate, the employment rate of women in this country is higher than that of men. According to the salary, the ratio of female pay to male salary is 88%, which is the best country in the world.

In addition, the proportion of female members in Rwanda parliament is 64%, ranking first in the world.

The United States ranked forty-fifth overall, while the gender gap in the political field ranked seventy-third.

The most ranked countries are Yemen, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Judging from the four areas of evaluation, the gender gap in education is very small. It is expected that equality between men and women will be achieved in the next 10 years, but in the political field.

According to the current growth rate, it is expected to take 82 years.

According to the report, gender inequality in the political arena is slowly but surely improving.

"In the political field, women's participation in public life has a positive impact on the elimination of gender gaps at all levels of society," the world economic forum said. "In addition, a series of evidence shows that there is a correlation between women's participation in politics and women's involvement in economic life."