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Gender gaps create new costs for corporates

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Corporates are under pressure to improve gender parity but progress is slow

Pandemic deepens impact of global technological gaps

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Although internet use is rising, serious access gaps persist across regions, gender and ethnic groups

Policy can prevent productivity pay gaps proliferating

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The widening US productivity pay gap, where GDP gains are paid to workers less and less, is not replicated globally

Recession risks wider internet infrastructure gap

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Development actors want governments to make the internet more affordable, accessible and reliable; progress is uneven

Gender gap for mobile access may widen with COVID-19

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Rising mobile phone use has helped advance multiple development goals

Global gender gaps are vast in policy and practice

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The fourth anniversary of the #MeToo movement has drawn attention to progress on gender equality

Regional gender gaps face policy conflict

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UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have made gender equality a top priority, but progress is slow and uneven

COVID connectivity boost leaves social gaps intact

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INTERNATIONAL

COVID-19 lockdowns incentivised 783 million new users to come online during 2020-21

Confidence gap will make US government’s work harder

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UNITED STATES

Since at least 1993, public confidence in the major US governing institutions has fallen

Beijing closes gap in South China Sea island race

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ASIA PACIFIC

China is constructing artificial islands on reefs in the disputed Spratly islands of the South China Sea