Weekend Reading on Women's Representation August 4th, 2023

Dear Readers, Recently, Frontline featured the World Economic Forum's 17th annual Global Gender Gap report, which highlighted the significant progress needed to achieve global gender parity. The report analyzes 146 countries and finds that it will take 131 years for the world to close the gender gap at the current rate of progress. More women are becoming parliamentarians globally, with an average 22.9% increase. Iceland and Costa Rica have over 33% of women in parliament. However, other count