Women now earn what men did a decade ago, according to the World Economic Forum¹, underlining the sluggish² global progress made in bridging the gender³ divide over the past 10 years.

世界经济论坛(World Economic Forum)称，女性现在的收入水平与男性10年前持平，这突显出过去10年在弥合性别差距方面全球进展缓慢。

In its latest Global Gender Gap Report, the think-tank says that the gap in health, education, economic opportunity and politics around the world has closed by only 4 per cent in the past decade, whilst the economic gap has narrowed by just 3 per cent, suggesting it will take another 118 years to achieve equality.

在最新《全球性别差距报告》(Global Gender Gap Report)中，世界经济论坛表示，过去10年，全球在健康、教育、经济机会和政治方面的性别差距仅仅弥合了4%，经济差距仅缩窄了3%，这表明，要实现男女平等需要再等118年。

“Progress towards wage equality and labour force parity⁴ has stalled markedly since 2009/2010,” the report says.

报告称：“自2009/2010年以来，薪资平等和劳动力平等方面的进展明显停滞。”

On key measures, the gender gap has widened since 2006. In education, the gap between women and men’s literacy rate and educational attainment⁵ worsened in nearly a quarter of the 145 countries surveyed over the past 10 years.

根据主要衡量标准，自2006年以来，性别差距一直拉大。过去10年，在教育领域，在接受调查的145个国家中，有近四分之一的国家的男女识字率和受教育程度差距扩大。

While in 97 countries more women than men are enrolling⁶ in university, women make up the majority of skilled workers in only 68 countries and the majority of leaders — legislators, senior officials and managers — in only four.

有97个国家的女大学生数量超过男生，仅仅有68个国家的女性占到高技能员工的大多数，仅有4个国家的女性领导人（包括国会议员、高级官员和高管）占到了大多数。

“Women hold the majority of senior roles in only a handful of countries,” said Saadia Zahidi, head of the global challenge on gender parity at WEF, which works with corporates such as Coca-Cola, Bank of America, Bloomberg, Renault-Nissan and SABMiller on the issue. “Companies and governments need to implement⁷ new policies to prevent this continued loss of talent and instead leverage⁸ it for boosting growth and competitiveness.”

“女性仅在很少几个国家获得大多数高层职位，”世界经济论坛全球性别平等项目主管萨阿迪亚丠止迪(Saadia Zahidi)表示，“企业和政府需要实行新的政策防范人才继续流失，并在这方面施压促进增长和提高竞争力。”世界经济论坛正与可口可乐(Coca-Cola)、美银(Bank of America)、彭博(Bloomberg)、雷诺-日产(Renault-Nissan)和SABMiller等公司就这个问题展开合作。

In the WEF’s annual rankings the Nordic countries still top the index, with Ireland the highest placed non-Nordic country at fifth, after Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Rwanda, the Philippines and New Zealand are the only non-European countries in the top 10.

在世界经济论坛的年度排名中，北欧国家仍名列前茅，爱尔兰在非北欧国家中排名第一，总排名第五，排在冰岛、芬兰、挪威和瑞典后面。卢旺达、菲律宾和新西兰是仅有的跻身前10名的非欧洲国家。