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- A man's world: gender parity will take more than five generationsFOCUS ·
March 8, 2023 · 3:27 PM UTC Global gender parity is going to take more than five generations to achieve, as women still lag far behind men in the economy and politics and surging inflation last year disproportionately hurt their financial health, findings by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and equality experts show.