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The Future of Jobs

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    • ASEAN
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  • Industry Gender Gap Profiles
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  • The Future of Jobs Report
    • Part 1: Preparing for the Workforce of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
      • Chapter 1: The Future of Jobs and Skills
        • Drivers of Change
        • Employment Trends
        • Skills Stability
        • Future Workforce Strategy
      • Chapter 2: The Industry Gender Gap
        • The Business Case for Change
        • Gaps in the Female Talent Pipeline
        • Barriers to Change
        • Women and Work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
        • Approaches to Leveraging Female Talent
      • References and Further Reading
      • Appendix A: Report Methodology
      • Appendix B: Industry and Regional Classifications
    • Part 2: Industry, Regional and Gender Gap Profiles
      • User’s Guide: How to Read the Industry, Regional and Gender Gap Profiles
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
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    • [ — Divider — ]
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    • Basic and Infrastructure
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  • Shareable Infographics
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  • [ — Divider — ]
  • The Future of Jobs Report
    • Part 1: Preparing for the Workforce of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
      • Chapter 1: The Future of Jobs and Skills
        • Drivers of Change
        • Employment Trends
        • Skills Stability
        • Future Workforce Strategy
      • Chapter 2: The Industry Gender Gap
        • The Business Case for Change
        • Gaps in the Female Talent Pipeline
        • Barriers to Change
        • Women and Work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
        • Approaches to Leveraging Female Talent
      • References and Further Reading
      • Appendix A: Report Methodology
      • Appendix B: Industry and Regional Classifications
    • Part 2: Industry, Regional and Gender Gap Profiles
      • User’s Guide: How to Read the Industry, Regional and Gender Gap Profiles
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Global Challenge Partners

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  • What changes in global and regional cooperation will 2021 bring? Here’s what business leaders say

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    For geopolitics, 2020 has been a year of paradoxes. The rapid spread of the virus exposed just how interconnected and globalized the world is, as countries grappled with the common experience of a new disease. There was even a sense of global community – as health workers were praised around the world with a nightly clap and tech-enabled global concerts took place, such as One World: Together at Home.

  • What technology changes will 2021 bring? Here’s what business leaders say

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    A new World Economic Forum-Ipsos survey finds that most adults are uniquely optimistic about accessing technology, digital tools and training in the next 12 months. This is amid general pessimism about other aspects of life, such as health, employment and climate change.

  • What changes to environmental stewardship will 2021 bring? Here’s what business leaders say

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    With COVID-19 infections and deaths continuing to rise and the entire world feeling the economic impact of the pandemic, getting the coronavirus under control is an immediate priority.

  • What changes to industry and society will 2021 bring? Here’s what business leaders say

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    Even prior to COVID-19, our world was facing a number of challenges that made our current systems unsustainable, from rising inequality to a need to rapidly reskill populations for the jobs of the future to accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss, to name just a few.

  • Davos Agenda: What you need to know about geopolitics

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    Following the 2020 Annual Meeting in Davos, World Economic Forum President Børge Brende called for “another period of multilateral renewal” in order for the world to tackle the multitude of economic, environmental and technological risks ahead.

  • What changes to economic systems will 2021 bring? Here’s what business leaders say

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    With more than 2 million COVID-19 deaths worldwide and rising, getting the virus under control is a top priority for 2021.

  • Davos Agenda: What you need to know about technology

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    COVID-19 has accelerated the deployment of new technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – reshaping how we work, shop, learn, socialize, even visit the doctor in ways likely to remain permanent long after the pandemic is under control.

  • Davos Agenda: What you need to know about the future of global health

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis unlike any we’ve seen in our lifetimes – and getting control of the virus and ensuring citizens around the world are vaccinated are top public health priorities.

  • Davos Agenda: What you need to know about better business

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    The World Economic Forum last year launched a new “Davos Manifesto” in support of stakeholder capitalism, which says companies should “pay their fair share of taxes, show zero tolerance for corruption, uphold human rights throughout their global supply chains and advocate for a competitive level playing field,” as Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab explained.

  • Davos Agenda: What you need to know about the global economy

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    In May, the world’s top risk professionals identified “prolonged recession of the global economy” as the most feared risk of COVID-19.

  • Davos Agenda: What you need to know about the future of work

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    The events of the past year have disrupted work, education and society.

  • Davos Agenda: What you need to know about saving the planet

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    A year ago at the Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos – heeding the advice of speakers including Greta Thunberg, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Prince Charles – government, business and civil society committed to take more concrete action on climate change and save the planet from a hot, smoky, polluted demise.

  • The rise of the big idea

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has further unveiled the decline of our international institutions. But it also reminds us that our biggest problems are global in nature. Whether it’s pandemics, climate change, terrorism or international trade, all are global issues that we can only address or mitigate collectively.

  • How to build a trustworthy and connected future

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    For much of the recent past, the rise and rise of new technologies has seemed inexorable, snowballing along under its own momentum, and it has come to define a new era, the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The breakneck pace of this new era, with its accompanying life-changing technologies, has been disruptive, raising a range of ethical questions – about genetics, robots, algorithms – and what it means to be human. Like lemmings, we, too, have been swept along, fuelled by a blind faith in this relentless march of progress.

  • Will 2021 be the year of living dangerously?

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    As the third decade of the 21st century gets under way, we will look back on 2021 as a year when the future of our life on earth balanced on a fulcrum. But which way will we lean? Will we grind out a post-COVID-19 recovery along the lines of the recovery from the last great global financial crisis in 2009 towards a more dangerous future of higher consumption and emissions? Or will policy-makers, politicians, business leaders and civil society summon their collective imaginations, cooperative spirit and willpower to craft stimulus packages and investments that lead to a more sustainable, nature-friendly future?

  • Redefining the business of business

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    COVID-19 has been a wake-up call for business, shining an unsparing spotlight on the vulnerabilities of many organizations and pulling forward changes in working practices that were expected to take years into a matter of weeks.

  • Our moment to choose a fairer, more sustainable world

    Sunday 24th of January 2021

    A cartoon from The New Yorker magazine last November depicts a caveman and cavewoman crouched in the opening of their dark cave. The woman is hard at work rubbing sticks to make fire while her man, sitting idly by, remarks: “Stop saying everything is ‘unprecedented’.”

  • Who’s who at Davos Agenda Week 2021

    Saturday 23rd of January 2021

    With the COVID-19 pandemic underscoring the need for greater global cooperation, political and business leaders from across the globe are set to convene from 25- 29 January to take part in the World Economic Forum’s virtual Davos Agenda event.

  • How 2020 taught businesses to place empathy before profit

    Saturday 23rd of January 2021

    The pandemic defied every management and organizational system, pushing everyone to their limits, until a transition toward agile, ever-evolving methods began to emerge. 2020 was an interesting year, to say the least – many companies emerged with a fresher face, reinventing themselves along the way. Perhaps the most telling realization was that the key to survival in any catastrophe is empathy.

  • How technology can drive a sustainable economic recovery

    Saturday 23rd of January 2021

    During the financial crisis of 2008, the world had the opportunity to shape a more sustainable economy. According to economist Nicholas Stern, the economic and technological conditions at the time would have made it easier to make progress on climate change. But we failed to grasp it.

  • How to ensure fair AI throughout the supply chain

    Saturday 23rd of January 2021

    For some time now, there has been talk about how leaders developing AI applications need to build “fair AI”; this should be unbiased and equitable, ideally improving the quality of life of everyone it touches.

  • Tech can reach the world’s unbanked women – but only if they tell us how it should work

    Friday 22nd of January 2021

    • Women make up the majority of the global unbanked population.

  • How to combine the physical and digital worlds to enable successful, sustainable business

    Friday 22nd of January 2021

    The pandemic has given our environment a much-needed breather – with carbon emissions falling by a record 7% in 2020 – and has painfully revealed the hard work required to slow down detrimental climate change.

  • How the MENA region can shape the post-COVID-19 sustainability agenda

    Friday 22nd of January 2021

    As the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic continue to play out globally, the major long-term threat facing humanity – climate change – has not vanished.

  • Companies must focus on resiliency, profitability and sustainability

    Friday 22nd of January 2021

    Whilst it is currently difficult to imagine a world in which COVID-19 isn’t part of our daily conversations, we will get there eventually. It is critical for our future how we respond to and recover from this crisis.

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Gender Parity

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  • Tech can reach the world’s unbanked women – but only if they tell us how it should work

    Friday 22nd of January 2021

    • Women make up the majority of the global unbanked population.

  • How a genderless card deck might make you think differently about inequality

    Friday 22nd of January 2021

    Indy Mellink, a Dutch card fan, was explaining a game to her cousins last summer when she asked herself: why should a king be worth more than a queen?

  • Stitching up racism: how knitting is helping break down barriers in South African tech

    Thursday 21st of January 2021

    • Despite making key contributions in the technology sector, Black people continue to face barriers to entry.

  • 3 women of colour on how to boost diversity from the outside in

    Sunday 17th of January 2021

    Marian Croak has a unique way of looking at the world. It probably explains why the inventor of one of 2020’s most essential technologies – Voice over Internet Protocol – and Google’s Vice-President of Engineering has hundreds of patents to her name.

  • Why women don’t speak up on Zoom calls – and why that’s a problem

    Thursday 7th of January 2021

    Diversity efforts may have given women a seat at the table – or, in the context of the pandemic, a place on the Zoom call – but that doesn’t necessarily mean they have a voice.

  • Dying inside: The hidden crisis in America’s jails

    Tuesday 22nd of December 2020

    The female population in U.S. jails has risen as the male population has declined. Many women enter jails suffering mental health crises and addictions, and sometimes pregnant. Yet local lockups are ill-equipped to handle this growing population pool.

  • Unequal burden: how the COVID-19 pandemic is adding to women’s workloads

    Friday 18th of December 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic, and the economic downturn it has caused, have hit everyone hard. But the impact has not been spread equally. A new report by UN Women has found clear evidence that, although both genders have seen their unpaid workloads increase, women are bearing more of the burden than men.

  • These are the world’s most powerful women

    Friday 18th of December 2020

    Business magazine Forbes has published its 2020 list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.

  • How do people spend their time? This chart takes a global look

    Wednesday 16th of December 2020

    A global look at how people spend their time

  • Zurich added these 6 words to job adverts and more women applied

    Tuesday 8th of December 2020

    Insurance company Zurich saw a 16% increase in women applying for roles after adding six words relating to flexible working to their job ads.

  • Take the Meritocracy Stress Test to find out the truth about diversity in your company

    Friday 4th of December 2020

    • The Meritocracy Stress Test does for equality what the bank stress test did for liquidity.

  • Fewer women CEOs have been appointed since the start of the COVID-19 crisis – here’s why

    Thursday 3rd of December 2020

    The world’s biggest companies have been recruiting fewer women to chief executive roles since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.

  • The shadow pandemic: COVID-19 has resulted in a rise of violence against women in the Caribbean

    Wednesday 2nd of December 2020

    On November 25, 1960, three political activists, the Mirabal sisters, were brutally killed in the Dominican Republic. To mark this day, raise awareness, and encourage action, the world now observes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women every year in their honor.

  • This country has become the first in the world to make sanitary products free

    Thursday 26th of November 2020

    Scotland on 24th November made sanitary products free to all women, becoming the first nation in the world to take such a step against “period poverty.”

  • Domestic violence soared in lockdown – but we can stop this hidden pandemic

    Wednesday 25th of November 2020

    • COVID lockdowns trapped many domestic violence victims with their abusers.

  • As the UK publishes its first census of women killed by men, here’s a global look at the problem

    Wednesday 25th of November 2020

    Six women are killed by men every hour in a “global pandemic of femicide” that is being partly hidden by COVID-19 – and the United Nations is calling for urgent action.

  • The woman who created the technology behind internet calls explains what it takes to innovate

    Thursday 19th of November 2020

    If you’ve ever wondered how a Zoom call works, you might want to ask Marian Croak, Vice-President of Engineering at Google.

  • How women will drive the revival of the middle class

    Wednesday 11th of November 2020

    In today’s America, a middle-class life will cost you, on average, 30% more than it would have 20 years ago. Relative to the change in middle-class income since 1980, housing costs have increased by approximately 100 percentage points; healthcare costs have grown by nearly 200 percentage points; and the price of education has soared by more than 600 percentage points.

  • The state of women’s leadership in 5 statistics

    Tuesday 3rd of November 2020

    No country has achieved gender equality, and the glass ceiling remains intact. This is the warning from the United Nations in its 2020 edition of “The World’s Women: Trends and Statistics.”

  • Are countries doing enough to support women through the pandemic?

    Thursday 29th of October 2020

    While many governments have taken positive measures to support women and girls disproportionately affected by COVID-19, the response remains “insufficient and uneven”. This is the view of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Women, which have launched the COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker to track government action across 206 countries and territories.

  • COVID isn’t gender neutral- it hit women hardest. How to reset the world of work, by the head of UN Women

    Friday 23rd of October 2020

    This Q&A is an edited version of an interview with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, which took place ahead of the Jobs Reset Summit.

  • Could COVID-19 widen the workplace gender gap?

    Friday 16th of October 2020

    Office life will be different after COVID-19, with desks far apart, Plexiglass barriers and a health warning on handshakes. But the biggest change could be a notable absence of women.

  • Why investing in women small and micro business owners will help the global economy recover

    Friday 9th of October 2020

    As world leaders determine a path forward for the global economy, we must ensure women and women-led small businesses are not left behind. Investing in women-led small and micro businesses (SMBs) pays dividends in communities around the globe because women use their resources to reinvest in the health, education and well-being of their families and neighbors.

  • This Black British hiker is tackling exclusion from the outdoors

    Monday 5th of October 2020

    As corporations, governments, organizations and educational institutions confront what diversity and inclusion looks like from the inside, one UK hiker has created a community for people of colour outdoors.

  • Why improving women’s lives is the key to healthy ageing

    Thursday 1st of October 2020

    • COVID-19 has disproportionately affected older people – both directly and indirectly.

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