evidence: Despite decades of progress in closing the gender equality gap, close to nine out of 10 men and women around the world, hold some sort of bias against women, according to new findings published on Thursday from the UN Development Programmme (UNDP). [...] "We have come a long way in recent decades to ensure that women have the same access to life’s basic needs as men", said the head of UNDP’s Human Development Report Office, Pedro Conceição, acknowledging that "we have reached parity in primary school enrollment and reduced maternal mortality by 45 percent since the year 1990". [...] The new analysis shines a light on why enormous "power gaps" continue between men and women in economies, political systems and corporations, despite tangible progress in closing gender inequalities in developmental areas, such as education and health as well as in removing legal barriers to political and economic participation.