170 Years Before Women Get Equal Pay, According to New Study

Welp. Sorry ladies but unless you’ve got the lifespan of a subtropical tortoise you won’t be seeing equal pay in your lifetime. Or your kids lifetime. Or their kids lifetime. But maybe the next ones might.

According to the new yearly study by World Economic Forum, the Global Gender Gap won’t be closed for another 170 years if our current trends continue. So yeah, it can be fixed — but dramatic efforts need to be taken to change the current trajectory.

If it is any consolation, not a single country has fully closed the overall gender gap —the five countries that top the list are Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Rwanda, and they have closed more than 80 percent of the gender pay gap.

The index takes into account differences in economics, health and survival, education and political empowerment.

Where does the United States sit on this wildly depressing list? #45 — With a score of 0.72 out of 1.00.

We’ve got a ways to go.

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