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7 of the most surprising facts about global gender gaps
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Author: Kate Whiting, Senior Writer, Formative Content
The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap 2021 finds COVID-19 has slowed progress towards gender parity.
Political Empowerment is the area with the widest gender gap.
More women than men have lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic.
Tech needs progress with women making up just 14% of the cloud computing workforce.
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David Peiris , Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations The George Institute for Global Health, UNSW Sydney, New Delhi, India, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Medical Faculty and University Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America