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.
The gender pay gap: A stubborn problem
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.
Focus
This online resource will guide you in implementing the OECD Recommendation on Gender Equality in Public Life. Browse the OECD Gender Governance Toolkit
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- Bringing Household Services Out of the Shadows: Formalising Non-Care Work in and Around the House
- Entrepreneurship Policies through a Gender Lens
- How are development actors financing the Action Coalitions of the Generation Equality Forum?
- Gender and the Environment - Building Evidence and Policies to Achieve the SDGs
- Truth Hurts: Sheltering from the pandemic of domestic violence (OECD podcast series on preventing violence against women)
- Programme of March on Gender 2021: Empowering the recovery through women's leadership
- Building a gender-equal recovery (OECD Forum Webinar replay)
- Show me the Money: How pay transparency policies can help close the gender wage gap (Webinar replay)
- One in Three is Too Many: Taking action on violence against women
- COVID-19 threatens to undo progress made in closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship
- Measuring masculine norms to better understand the invisible barriers to women’s economic inclusion
- It’s time to close the gender gap in research
- Financing Women, Peace and Security in fragile context
- Women at the core of the fight against the COVID-19 crisis
Key Documents
- Towards Improved Retirement Savings Outcomes for Women (March 2021)
- Changing Laws and Breaking Barriers for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia (November 2020)
- Women at the core of the fight against the COVID-19 crisis (April 2020)
- SIGI 2019 Global Report - Transforming Challenges into Opportunities (March 2019)
- The Pursuit of Gender Equality: An Uphill Battle (September 2017)
Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC)
Led by ILO, UN Women and the OECD, the Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC) is a multi-stakeholder coalition to contribute to the achievement of SDG target 8.5 focusing on equal pay between women and men for work of equal value [Short Video]
