Gender equality in the world of work matters
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Executive summary from Gender at Work, A companion to the World Development Report on Jobs.
Jobs can bring gains for women, their families, businesses and communities
Jobs boost self-esteem and pull families out of poverty. Yet gender disparities persist in the world of work. Closing these gaps, while working to stimulate job creation more broadly, is a prerequisite for ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity.
Gender equality in the world of work is a win-win on many fronts
A large and growing body of evidence demonstrates both the business and the development case. Booz & Company estimates that raising female employment to male levels could have a direct impact on GDP, increasing it by 34 per cent in Egypt, 12 per cent in the United Arab Emirates, ten per cent in South Africa, and nine per cent in Japan, taking into account losses in economy-wide labour productivity that could occur as new workers entered the labour force. Yet almost half of women’s productive potent...
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