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Women’s contribution to global health, wealth and policy increasingly inspires, leads and influences societal change. Sex-equity and increased women’s leadership is critical for global economic, environmental and societal success.1 Over the last 25 years, women’s representation in politics has doubled,2 twice the number of Nobel prizes have been honoured to women compared with the entirety of the 20th century3 and in the last decade there is an increased number of women holding senior board level positions.4 Despite these gains, overall progress on delivering sex parity has been slow and no country yet fully provides equal opportunity for women.5 Globally, women still have fewer rights, receive less education, are more likely to live in poverty, are twice as likely to undertake unpaid work6 and remain significantly underrepresented across influential sectors of society including business and politics.2 Furthermore, this is not expected to be rectified any time soon. At the current rate of progress …