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Gender inequality By Saloni Garg

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  Gender inequality is one of the oldest and most pervasive forms of inequality in the world. It denies women their voices, devalues their work and make women’s position unequal to men’s, from the household to the national and global levels. Despite some important progress to change this in recent years, in no country have women achieved economic equality with men,  and women are still more likely than men to live in poverty. Lower-paid, unpaid, undervalued: gender inequality in work Low wages . Across the world, women are in the lowest-paid work.  Globally, they earn  24 percent  less than men and at the current rate of progress, it will take 170 years to close the gap. 700 million fewer women than men are in paid work.   Lack of decent work . 75 percent of women in developing regions are in the informal economy -  where they are less likely to have employment contracts, legal rights or social protection, and are often not paid enough to escape povert...