surveyed 1,834 business professionals world-wide on gender parity in the workplace.
In purchasing power parity terms, developed countries contribute less to global output than their emerging counterparts, after their share of world GDP dwindled to 43 per cent in 2014 from 54 per cent in 2004.
"It's still a long way from parity, and it's still a long way from reaching a point where women and men are being paid the same for the same job," said report co-author Saadia Zahidi, head of WEF's Centre for the New Economy and Society.
A broad mix of legislation and private sector action tailored to individual markets is needed to achieve faster progress in wage parity, say experts.
The key difference The Lakers have to share in what can be described as a socialistic system aimed to achieve better parity between the haves and have-nots in the NBA.
The theme for IWD 2018 is #PressforProgress, a nod to the growing global movement of advocacy, activism and support surrounding gender parity and sexism.
UBS, a bank, reckons the "total cost of ownership" of an electric car will reach parity with a petrol one next year—albeit at a loss to its manufacturer.
Wind is approaching grid parity — the moment when it can compete without subsidies.
The People's Bank of China permits the US dollar's value against the renminbi to fluctuate by 2 per cent above or below a so-called "central parity rate" published each morning, also known as the midpoint or fixing.
The CFETS currently announces every business day the central parity rates of the yuan against major currencies including the US dollar, euro and Japanese yen.
In recent decades, women have eitherachieved parity with men or are the majority in universities in emergingmarkets, says Ms Zahidi.
"I've been stunned by the amount of men in my life that have contacted me since my speech to tell me to keep going, and that they want to make sure that their daughters will still be alive to see a world where women have parity, economically and politically.
Last week I finally got around to reading a 155-page McKinsey report called "The Power of Parity".
"Progress towards wage equality and labour force parity has stalled markedly since 2009/2010," the report says.
A broad mix of legislation and private sector action tailored to individual markets is needed to achieve faster progress in wage parity, say experts.
The euro suffered its biggest quarterly decline against the dollar since it was created in 1999, and many strategists hastily brought forward their target date for the dollar reaching parity with its transatlantic partner, although that expectation has been tempered by poor US economic data.
" Alexis Ohanian, co-founder and chairman of Reddit, added that he was "glad to see that her actions have helped to push forward the conversation about gender parity not just in the tech sector but in the business world.
In 2014, global output per head grew by close to 2 per cent, at purchasing power parity.
In terms of one important measure, which is GDP purchasing power parity.
And the project presents difficult choices for those who argue for parity between medical and mental health patients.
