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Women of Davos tackle Trump, Trudeau and the Presidents Club

The Canadian PM won friends at Davos with a practical message on gender equality as London was rocked by scandal. Will Trump strike the right note?

Seven prominent women co-chaired the World Economic Forum this year; L-R: IMF managing director Christine Lagarde, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty, Indian womens' charity pioneer Chetna Sinha, CERN director-general Fabiola Gianotti, International Trade Union Confederation general-secretary Sharan Burrow and Isabelle Kocher, chief executive of French electric utility Engie.
Seven prominent women co-chaired the World Economic Forum this year; L-R: IMF managing director Christine Lagarde, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty, Indian womens' charity pioneer Chetna Sinha, CERN director-general Fabiola Gianotti, International Trade Union Confederation general-secretary Sharan Burrow and Isabelle Kocher, chief executive of French electric utility Engie. Photo: Getty Images

There was much talk before this year's World Economic Forum about the fact it would be co-chaired by seven women. At one level it was a statement of how far gender equality has come at Davos, but it has also drawn attention to how far there is still to go.

The seven chairs are all extraordinarily impressive women at the top of their professions, and more powerful leaders have gathered here at Davos than ever before. But only one in five delegates to the Forum are female.

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