It’s coming. Yay. Yippee. Break out that bottle of cleanskin wine you’ve hidden behind the dishwashing detergent.

We have a date — a year, even — for when the gender pay gap will be closed. When men and women will be paid the same for the same job.

It’stomorrow.

…Jokes. (Amy Schumer should put that in her stand up routine.)

It’s 2186. 170 years away. Even better news, according to the Global Gender Gap Report from the World Economic Forum (that measures gender parity in four areas including economic opportunity, education, political empowerment and health and survival) the time frame to close this gap is growing not shrinking. It’s increased by 63 years from the estimate given last year.

We are going BACKWARDS.

If I sound heartless and glib, I don’t mean to. It’s so utterly depressing that I will never — and my three daughters will never, and all the women of the world in this generation and the next six generations will never — have the same access to jobs as males and will not be paid what is just, right, and fair for the work they do.

The report found globally women are earning just over a half (59 per cent) of what men earn despite working longer hours. This is a global earning disparity. The gender pay gap in Australia is different. According to the Australian Council of Trade Unions women are paid on average 20 per cent less than men. The recruitment firm Glassdoor found earlier this year that Australian women earn 83 cents to every $1 a man earns.

Equality for that thing we only do five days a week, 48 weeks a year, sacrifice so much for is a long way away. Will we even exist then? Will we even still have banana bread? What about cars? Houses? Societies?

Let’s not even talk about that. Let’s find some light. Let’s imagine this Utopia called 2187 where the gender pay gap has closed. Where we stand shoulder to shoulder with men.

What will women’s lives look like?

Ohhhh 2186, you look good.

It’s a shame, though, we’re all going to be dead.