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WHAT'S NEXT?: Achieving global gender parity will take many decades yet. Read on to understand the trends, challenges and efforts to advance parity at a faster pace.

[New] The Yemen crisis is leaving women and girls with more responsibilities, fewer economic opportunities, and greater risk of gender-based violence, early marriage, and exploitation.
[New] Between 2014 and 2036, the average life expectancy for a 65-year-old is projected to increase by 1.8 years for women (to 88.8 years) and by 1.9 years for men.
[New] The CLSA will follow approximately 50,000 Canadian men and women between the ages of 45 and 85 every 3 years for a period of at least 20 years.
[New] Alcohol and illicit drug use are major modifiable risk factors for suicide, the leading cause of death for men under the age of 49 and women under the age of 34 in the United Kingdom.
[New] So far, the UK has not joined a number of other countries which have stopped the jab for younger people - amid concerns about whether it could increase the risk of a rare blood clot, especially in younger women.
[New] In a study of Swedish women, red meat was found to increase the risk of CRC, while no association was reported for processed meat intake.
[New] The latest WHO data show that 1 in 3 women experience intimate partner violence during their lifetime, while the UN reports that women with disabilities have four times the risk of experiencing sexual violence in comparison to women without disabilities.
[New] Child marriage, domestic violence and low literacy rates have lowered Indian women's economic opportunities and contributed to sexual violence in India.
[New] In individuals under the age of 60, health authorities are seeing more cases of the rare clots in people who recently got the Astra vaccine than would be normally expected.
[New] Discrimination leads to less innovation: one study found that innovation in the United States will quadruple if women, people of color, and children from low-income families invented at the rate of groups who are not held back by discrimination and structural barriers.
[New] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers pregnant women to be at high risk for COVID-19, and they are in Phase 1 A of Pennsylvania's vaccine rollout.
[New] The risk of women dying while pregnant or during childbirth increased by more than a third in two countries: Mexico and India.
[New] In the Global South, hundreds of millions of women are having more children than they want or can provide for - a crisis made worse by COVID-19 via the disruption to vital family planning services, increased gender-based violence, and a surge in child marriage.
[New] In Thailand, the UNFPA initiative is aiming to improve maternal health care access and contraceptive services for more than 230,000 women, adolescent girls, pregnant women, and adolescent mothers in high risk and remote, mountainous areas.
[New] Ground-breaking Australian research shows women who earn more than their male partners are at higher risk of domestic violence.
[New] For CVD incidence, the highest risk is in women from the Pakistani ethnic group and men from the Bangladeshi ethnic group.
[New] Gabon will present three bills to parliament to strengthen equality between men and women, notably by fighting against violence and discrimination.
[New] Fed up with economic hardship, underdevelopment, and ineffective political leadership, young Senegalese men are taking higher risks to escape difficult lives made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Compared with white women, African American women with pregnancy-associated stroke faced nearly two times the risk of dying from stroke, and the increased risk of death was consistent across age groups.
African American women have a significantly increased risk of stroke and death during pregnancy and childbirth or in the period right after birth, compared to the risk of stroke among white women.
UNDP and UN Women urge governments to ensure women not only have equal participation in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts, but also have equal decision-making power and leadership opportunities.
Gender equality and women's full and equal participation in all areas of life, especially decision-making, are integral to the Decade of Action and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
The effective participation of women and equal leadership opportunities are recognized globally as key drivers to achieving sustainable development.

Last updated: 08 April 2021

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