North America's gender gap will take 151 years to close—longer than Europe and Africa—according to a report from the World Economic Forum.
The United States also fell two places to 53rd in the ranking in terms of overall gender equality. Just ahead of the United States was Cape Verde, a country of about 540,000 people that was formerly a Portuguese colony. Singapore followed the United States in 54th place. Canada, the only other country in the report's North America region, came in at 19th.
Along with gender income disparity, American women have remained vastly underrepresented in leadership positions in the country, according to the WEF. The forum's report noted that, among U.S. companies, only 21.7 percent of members of corporate managing boards are women. Further, women only occupied 23 percent of members of the House of Representatives and a quarter of all seats in the Senate.
The report noted that the U.S. was one of 85 countries—a shrinking majority—that had never had a woman head of state. One day after Donald Trump's presidential inauguration, an estimated 600,000 anti-Trump protestors fill the streets during the Women's March on January 21, 2017 held in the area surrounding the Washington Mall.contacted the World Economic Forum as well as the Alice Paul Institute and the National Organization for Women for comment. This story will be updated to reflect any responses provided.
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