Why is that, and what if anything should business leaders and policymakers do about the gender disparity?

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The gender disparity with regards to literacy rates is very high, with illiteracy rates of 6.3% and 17.5% for adult males and females, respectively.

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Some indicators pointed to a gender disparity in the field, with women outweighing men by a 3:1 margin overall, but reducing to less than half in senior executive positions, with 49.7% of senior management jobs accounted for by men.

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The greatest progress has been achieved in gender parity, particularly in primary education, although gender disparity remains in almost a third of the countries with data.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

This gender disparity is not seen among the wealthiest segment of society.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Gender disparity also remains a persistent problem: of the 124 million adults in East Asia without basic literacy and numeracy skills, 71 per cent are women.

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The come-on becomes spam and gums up the works, or scares women away, which in turn can lead to a different kind of gender disparity: a room full of dudes.

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Now keep in mind, this was 34 years after the Equal Pay Act was signed by President Kennedy in 1963, a law designed to abolish wage disparity based on gender.

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