The World Economic Forum has said that it will take 217 years until women have equal pay and representation in the workplace. The global pay gap between men and women has widened to its largest figure in nearly a decade.
Last year, WEF said that economic equality would be achieved in 170 years, while in 2015 they said it would take 118 years. The report notes that no country has closed the pay gap
"In 2017 we should not be seeing progress toward gender parity shift into reverse," said Saadia Zahidi, WEF's head of Gender Parity and Human Capital.
In education globally, where equality could be achieved within 13 years. The WEF said that despite low figures in political participation, slow and steady progress in the area means that the gap could be closed in 99 years.
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