Even 202 years until equality?

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With around 50 per cent of the world’s population, women are not really a minority. They are not treated. In 2018, the Situation has worsened even more. But not everywhere.

You are not promoted, paid less, and sometimes even thwarted. Worldwide, many women and men are fighting for more equality and have also achieved some success. Nevertheless, there has not done a lot lately. Worldwide, the stagnant equality, in some areas the gap waxes, warned the world economic forum (WEF) in its “Global Gender Gap Report, 2018”.

The WEF analyzes every year since 2006, the equal rights of women. To be viewed the areas of the economy – for example, salaries and opportunities
Positions of leadership, access to education, political participation and health, such as life expectancy, 149 countries.

Island: leader for equality

According to the latest study, Germany dropped a total of in the annual Equality Index by two places to rank 14. Almost 78 percent of the gender gap are closed in this country. Even worse it looks in Switzerland – you get used to 20 and the Austria lands, even only ranked 53. For comparison: At the leader of Iceland, the gender gap is closed to 85 percent of the Land in the tenth year in a row is a leader in the Index.

Quite exemplary during the Closing of the gender gap in the Nordic countries such as Norway (rank 2), Sweden (3) Finland (4). Nicaragua was the 5. Space conquer Rwanda and the 6. Among the G20 countries, France occupies rank 12 again. Followed it from Germany (rank 14), UK (15), Canada (16) and South Africa (19). The United States slip two places to Position 51.

Prejudices keep for a long time

Equality does not mean more experience now, women living well

So unsatisfactory is the result of sounds – 2017, it was even worse. The past year was the first in which the gap between women and men increased.

It is a lot of work remains to be done: If it is in fact in the current rate of progress, it will take 202 years to men and women in the workplace. You look at all of the levels, it will take 108 years for the gender gap is closed.

Small improvement in the workplace

If you look at the economic gap between the sexes, so it doesn’t look quite gloomy. She has teamed up 2018 easy. The development is due to the fact that men earn so much more than women. 2018, the income gap stood at just under 51 percent. In addition, there are more women in leadership positions worldwide (34 percent).

Contributes to the result, but also that the woman went back a proportion of the global population. A possible reason for this could be that the automation will impact disproportionately on areas that were traditionally occupied by women. At the same time, women in growing employment fields requiring stem skills and Knowledge, under-represented.

Other possible reasons are that the infrastructure, such as children and the elderly, needed to (Re-)integration of women into the employment market is still underdeveloped, and unpaid work is still done primarily by women.

Women are important building blocks for the economy

However, women in the economy are important: “The economies that have in the Fourth Industrial Revolution consisted of the understanding to use all of the available talent at Best,” predicts Klaus Schwab, founder of the world economic forum.

At the WEF, it goes forward with small steps

That there are less women in the stem fields (mathematics, Informatics, natural science, technology), is already known for a long time. More succinctly, the Situation for the Artificial intelligence (AI) – is a in partnership with LinkedIn carried out an analysis. In this area, only 22 percent of professionals are female.

“The industry must strive by means of Training and further training measures and concrete possibilities for change to the equality of women in the future world of work,” says Saadia Zahidi, member of the Board of the world economic forum. “This is in your own long-term interest, because the parity-based companies proven to achieve better performance.”

Only a little movement in the often technology-savvy Start-up scene

Gloomy prospects in the other areas

The world has deteriorated for women, access to health, education, and policy. In the case of political participation, the situation of women looks even from year to year dark. Even if Angela Merkel or Theresa May play important roles – a total of only a few women occupied in 2018 and state leadership positions. Inequality is not the same in all countries. In 22 of the “Western” economies, the political participation of women have improved.