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Women Will Have to Wait Another 170 Years to Close Gender Gap

Economic gap between men and women rises to highest since 2008
Photographer: Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg
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Women are going to get pay equality – they’ll just have to wait for another 170 years.

That’s according to an estimate by the World Economic Forum assessing gender gaps when it comes to economic opportunities, political empowerment, education and health between men and women.