Despite an additional quarter of a billion women entering the global workforce since 2006, wage inequality continues to persist, with women only earning what men did a decade ago.
Well, according to the Global Gender Gap report of 2015 by the World Economic Forum, the global gender gap across health, education, economic opportunity and politics has closed by only four percent in the past 10 years.
The economic gap has closed by a mere three percent. The report suggested it will take over 100 years to reach gender equality. As for education, the gap widened in one in five countries surveyed since 2006.
Despite that in 97 countries more women than men have enrolled in higher-education and university, they still make up the majority of skilled workers in only 68 countries, with only 4 countries having a female as head of state.