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By Emily Green<\/a>
\nNews Editor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On January 20, more than 2,500 leading politicians, businessmen, academics, and civil society representatives gathered in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland for the 45th<\/sup> World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (WEF). The four-day forum invited presidents and business executives\u00a0to contemplate the 2016 theme, \u201cMastering the Fourth Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The theme\u00a0covered a wide range, including\u00a0Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab\u2019s recent allusion to<\/a> an impending \u201ctechnological revolution\u201d that would \u201cfundamentally alter\u201d the global community, triggering both new innovations and a symptom of \u201cgreatest societal concern,” inequality.<\/p>\n

Tackling inequality took center stage following the release of the WEF\u2019s Global Gender Gap Report<\/a>. Using \u201ceconomic, educational, health-based, and political indicators,\u201d the comprehensive 2015 report ranked 145 countries based on how gender-inclusive their economies were that year.<\/p>\n

Nordic countries dominated the list, with the top four slots going to Iceland, Norway, Finland, and Sweden, respectively. The United States held the 28th<\/sup> slot, falling eight places since 2014 due to \u201cdecreased wage equality and changes in political positions.\u201d<\/a> Although the report recorded progress in women\u2019s political representation, the document illustrated a persisting gap between women\u2019s education and labor force participation.<\/p>\n

In response, WEF participants flooded the forum with discussions on gender equality. In a session on \u201cProgress Towards Parity,\u201d Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, spoke of the strategy<\/a> behind his 50\/50 cabinet, explaining his \u201cAsk Her to Run\u201d campaign<\/p>\n

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook\u2019s chief operating officer, linked inequalities back to childhood, where a \u201ctoddler wage gap\u201d<\/a> begins a lifetime of domestic divisions, such as a difference in allowances for household chores. Issue briefings were to discuss the negative impact of labor market shifts on female talent.<\/p>\n

Addressing female labor force participation, ten Fortune 500 companies teamed up with UN Women\u2019s HeForShe initiative for the organization\u2019s inaugural 2016 Corporate Parity Report<\/a>. The report, which profiles companies like Barclays, Twitter, AccorHotels, Unilever, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Tupperware Brands, incentivized gender equality\u00a0by\u00a0recognizing industry leaders as \u2018Corporate Champions.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Champion\u2019 CEOs undertake three core commitments: sign a CEO statement of support for women\u2019s empowerment principles, launch HeForShe within their company, and champion the campaign at the executive level. Although the report presented industry-wide inequalities, the companies in collaboration with HeForShe reported earnest progress in combating gender equality.<\/p>\n

Despite focused seminars on gender equality, the WEF faced parity issues of its\u00a0own. Women constituted a meager 17 percent<\/a> of 2016 participants, rising just one percentage point from the year prior<\/a>. With WEF\u2019s history of high-level leaders, the lack of female representation reflects a reality where men remain at the top, in both the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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