When Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, announced he had appointed women to half of his government's cabinet positions, many people asked him why. "Because it's 2015," he replied. But 2015 isn't an especially progressive time in the political world for gender equality. There are zero countries where women have equal representation with men. Zero. A new report on by the World Economic Forum, the Geneva-based nonprofit most famous for its uber-elite economic conference in Davos, Switzerland, shows that while women are inching toward global parity in...
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