Gender gap

Turn on your radio — it is statistically likely you'll hear music made by a man.

Go to a summer music festival. Is the headliner a man? Probably. The Australian music scene, like many industries, has a gender problem.

When triple j's Hack crunched the numbers, it discovered last year's Splendour in the Grass and Falls Festival booked almost 70 per cent male acts. That number blew out to 90 per cent at Listen Out and Stereosonic.

Women work on average 50 minutes more a day than men, data from the WEF's Global Gender Gap report suggests.

The report says the prevalence of unpaid work burdens women and estimates that economic inequalities between the sexes could take 170 years to close.

The gap in economic opportunity, the WEF says, is now larger than at any point since 2008.

Nearly a quarter of a billion women have entered the global workforce over the past decade, the report says.