Gender equality will take 300 years to achieve, says UN chief

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Progress toward gender equality is “vanishing before our eyes”, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres told the Commission on the Status of Women on Monday.
 

Speaking to the key UN women’s rights group ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, Guterres said gender equality is “300 years away” according to the latest estimates from UN Women, the UN organisation dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.

Guterres cited high rates of maternal mortality, girls being forced into early marriage, and girls being kidnapped and assaulted for attending school as evidence that hope of achieving gender equality “is