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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: It’s Up to the Women
Description: Zubaida Bai discusses how bold systemic change can make gender equality achievable
In 2015 the nations of the world—with much fanfare—agreed to achieve gender equality by 2030 as one of the U.N.’s “Sustainable Development Goals.” With the approach of the 10-year anniversary of that declaration, it’s obvious to even the UN statisticians that there is no possibility the goal will be realized. Indeed, if you want to be depressed (or, perhaps, angered) Google “gender inequality” and you will learn that the World Economic Forum has run the numbers and decided that “gender parity is 131 years away.”
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