UN Report’s Stinging View on Women’s Inequality

Midway to Agenda 2030: off the track on gender parity

By: Sumita Thapar

Not one of 114 countries studied in a new United Nations survey has achieved gender equality, with more than 99 percent of women and girls living in countries with low women’s empowerment and a big gender gap. It will take at least another 40 years for women and men to be represented equally in national political leadership at the curre…