"The overriding conclusion 20 years on from Beijing is that, despite marginal progress, we have years, even decades, to go until women enjoy the same rights and benefits as men at work," said Shauna Olney, chief of the gender, equality and Diversity branch of the ILO.
Beard's "Women & Power," on the other hand, offers a slightly more optimistic vision — a reflection upon three thousand years of inequity and a modest hope for marginal progress, made through the incremental raising of cultural consciousness.
Mr. Levy said that while some of the schools had improved, "marginal progress is not what we're after".
The US, the most armed nation in the history of humankind, the world's hyperpower, which spends more on weapons than the 10 next highest-spending nations combined, that country – along with five European allies and partners from the Gulf states – is pounding Isis from the air and yet making only marginal progress.
If Mr. Dunbar makes only marginal progress, however, history could well remember Mrs. Whitman as the governor who acknowledged the problem of racial profiling, but failed to solve it.
After making marginal progress in renewed discussions over the last 12 days, bargainers for writers and producers broke off without settling crucial issues and with no plan to resume.
Here, the CROS report offered a mixed picture, with marginal progress.
However, China has made only marginal progress toward these rebalancing goals.
The results in Table 6 demonstrate very marginal progress in AUC values over all the results in Table 5.
