'You can’t ignore us': Sheryl Sandberg on closing the gender pay gap

Trailblazers who have pushed for pragmatic solutions in their own fields tell us what works – and what more needs to be done.

Across the world, the average woman’s annual income is $US11,500 ($15,800), compared with $US21,500 for a man.

Laura Hughes

Sep 25, 2020 – 9.54am

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Women around the world will have to wait a further two centuries for the global gender gap to close fully.

That’s what the World Economic Forum predicted last December, when it stated that at the current rate of change it could take a startling 257 years to close the workplace gap – which measures factors such as wage equality, seniority and labour force participation.

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