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Caron Lindsay

What can we learn from this year’s World Gender Gap Report?

By Caron Lindsay | Tue 28th October 2014 - 6:54 pm

Climbing beans production in Rwanda - Photo by CIATThe BBC reports on this year’s Gender Gap report published by the World Economic Forum which shows a narrowing of the gender gap worldwide. 105 companies have seen improvements and Rwanda becomes African’s newest entry, right in at number 7, reflective of its high female participation in the workforce.

It’s worth having a look at the full report and individual country profiles.

Rwanda finds itself a whole 19 places above the UK. While we do ok on health and education, our gender pay gap is not good, and neither is our female participation in politics. We also get extra points because we have a female head of state which, if things continue as they are at present, will not be the case within, most likely, the next decade and a half.

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