Education: BA in Economics, Smith College; MPhil in International Economics, Graduate Institute Geneva; MPA, Harvard University. Current role: Managing Director at the World Economic Forum, heading the Centre for the New Economy and Society and the Global Communications Group. Co-Author: Future of Growth, Future of Jobs, Global Risks and Gender Gap. Author: Fifty Million Rising (2018). Awards: BBC 100 Women (2013 and 2014); Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize (2014); longlisted for FT/Mckinsey Business Book of the Year (2018). Interests: economics, future of work, education and skills, gender, income inequality and technology.
Equality must become a reality within our lifetimes. The World Economic Forum is helping drive two approaches towards higher gender parity, globally!
Globally, women will have to wait 202 years to be paid the same as men. But there are huge changes taking place in the world of work that could help us accelerate this process.
“It was a chance... for us to send pain the other way. And we took it.”
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En los últimos 15 años, una cantidad sin precedentes de mujeres, en particular millenials, han salido de sus casas para comenzar a trabajar en todo el mundo musulmán.
Les femmes représentent maintenant la majorité des étudiants universitaires dans le monde musulman.
An unprecedented number of women, particularly millennial women, are joining the workforce of the Muslim world, in a movement where economics appears to trump culture.
The average American worker has no fewer than 48 new career pathways to choose from, says a new report on the future of work.
Also in this week's round up: women in cryptocurrency and will panic buttons on India's mobile phones keep women safe?
Also in this week's round-up: #MeToo in Italy and equal pay for Norway’s male and female footballers.
Also in this week's round-up: London's pay gap and 16 stories from women in Pakistan who survived gender-based violence.
Also in this week's gender round-up: the economics of dividing domestic work fairly and feminism in China.
