No country has reached gender equality, head of U.N. Women says

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A girl born today will be 81 years old before she has the same chance as a man to be CEO of a company, the head of U.N. Women has said, and she will have to wait until she's 50 to have an equal chance to lead a country.

In fact, twenty years after 189 countries adopted a blueprint to achieve equality for women, not a single country has reached gender parity and equality, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told the Associated Press.

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Meanwhile, if the gender pay gap reduces at the current rate, it will take another 70 years to close, the Guardian reports. Read more...

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