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.
G7 Dashboard on Gender Gaps 2022
Gender inequalities continue to persist in all areas of social and economic life. Closing these gaps is an important goal and priority for all G7 members
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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Latest Info
- Data: U.S. Gender-data expansion project
- Focus: Same skills, different pay: Tackling Gender Inequalities at firm level
- Replay: EPIC Regional Conference on Pay Transparency in Asia/Pacific: Public Policy and Company Practices
- Report: The Role of Firms in the Gender Wage Gap in Germany
- Replay: International Equal Pay Day - Can we share better parental leave policies?
- Event: International Equal Pay Day: Can pay transparency measures help reduce the gender pay gap?
- Data: New Gender and Energy Data Explorer
- Report: Gender Equality in Peru: Towards a Better Sharing of Paid and Unpaid Work
- Report on the Implementation of the OECD Gender Recommendations | 10 June
- Podcast: Don’t blame victims, focus on perpetrators: Making services work for domestic violence survivors
- Article: The proportion of female doctors has increased in all OECD countries over the past two decades
- Data: Database on Gender gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Key Documents
- Report on the Implementation of the OECD Gender Recommendations (June 2022)
- Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls: : Guidance for Development Partners (May 2022)
- Tax Policy and Gender Equality: A Stocktake of Country Approaches (February 2022)
- 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]
