Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Japan crawls up to 110th in global gender gap ranking but women's participation still low
TOKYO -- Japan's ranking in the Global Gender Gap Index for 2018 nudged up to 110th among 149 nations from the previous year's record low of 114th amo Full article
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