Here is why the battle for gender equality is more urgent than ever
According to the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index, it will take 132 years to reach gender parity at the current rate.
Antra Bhatt
Antra Bhatt is a Statistics Specialist in the Research and Data Section of UN Women. She is a co-author of the Annual Gender Snapshot Report, From Insights to Action: Gender Equality in the wake of COVID-19, and World Survey on the Role of Women in Development and a key contributor in the statistical analysis for UN Women’s flagship reports such as Progress of the World’s Women and Turning Promises into Action. Before joining UN Women in 2017, Antra worked as an Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India and as a researcher at the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy and the University of Chicago Urban Poverty Lab in Chicago, USA. She has authored several publications and background papers on gender inequality and its intersection with poverty, healthcare, unpaid care, and labour markets including articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, UN Women Spotlight Papers, book chapters and Op-Eds/blogs. She holds an MS in Public Policy and PhD in Economics.
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