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Global Gender Gap Report 2021: Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on gender parity

More women are grappling with "double-shifts" due to the limited availability of care services (Shutterstock)

It will take 135.6 years to close the gender gap worldwide if the parity maintains its current trajectory having stepped back some 0.6 percent from a year ago to 68% in 2021, according to Global Gender Gap Report 2021.

This is an increase of a whopping 36 years to the time needed to close the global gender gap reported last year.

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