The OECD Gender Initiative examines existing barriers to gender equality in education, employment, and entrepreneurship. This website monitors the progress made by governments to promote gender equality in both OECD and non- OECD countries and provides good practices based on analytical tools and reliable data.
OECD Gender Data Portal
The OECD Gender Data Portal includes selected indicators shedding light on gender inequalities in education, employment, entrepreneurship, governance, health and development, showing how far we are from achieving gender equality and where actions is most needed. The data cover OECD member countries, as well as partner economies including Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and South Africa.
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Going digital: The future of work for women
Whether digitalisation will close or widen gender gaps in the labour market will, to a large extent, depend on policy. Governments therefore have a crucial role to play. This policy brief discusses the possible impact of digitalisation on women and men, and proposes a range of policies to ensure that technological change supports a closing, and not a widening, of gender gaps.
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Key Documents
- OECD Report to G7 Leaders on Women and Entrepreneurship (May 2016)
- OECD recommendation - Gender equality in public life
- OECD G20 report - Monitoring progress in reducing the gender gap in labour force participation (May 2015)
- OECD Publication - The ABC of Gender Equality in Education (March 2015)
- Background paper - Enhancing Women’s Economic Empowerment through Entrepreneurship and Business Leadership in OECD Countries (October 2014)
- Synthesis Report - Social Institutions and Gender Index 2014 (November 2014)
- OECD G20 report - Achieving stronger growth by promoting a more gender-balanced economy (September 2014)
- OECD recommendation - Gender equality in education, employment and entrepreneurship (May 2013)
- OECD Publication - Closing the Gender Gap: Act Now (December 2012)
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Education systems have made major strides to close gender gaps in student performance but girls and boys remain deeply divided in career choices, which are being made much earlier than commonly thought, according to a new OECD report.
