'To Bless All Mankind' February 29, 2016 Issue

Outlook brightens for a new generation of women at work

The Monitor’s Editorial Board

Adapted from an article published in The Christian Science Monitor, October 13, 2015.

Around the world women still face special challenges in participating in the workforce. Yet a new poll does reveal one important sign of progress.

The Thomson Reuters Foundation, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, looked at the problems confronting women in the Group of 20 countries, which represent about two-thirds of the world’s population and 85 percent of its gross domestic product. After polling 9,500 women it identified the major challenges for women who want to work.

Chief among them was how to maintain a successful work-life balance, followed by the lack of equal pay. Harassment in the workplace ranked third.

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