Equal Treatment

• Author: Natalie Ramírez-Djumena
• Position: Prepared by . Text and charts are based on Closing the Gender Gap, publhed by the OECD in December 2012.

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Many countries have made significant progress toward gender equality in education. Girls today outperform boys in some areas of education and are less likely to drop out of school. But women are also less likely to work for pay than are men, and they continue to earn less. Furthermore, they are less likely to make it to the top of the career ladder and are more likely to spend their final years in poverty.

A new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on closing the gender gap argues that greater gender equality in education, employment, and entrepreneurship has a strong positive effecton growth. For example, if OECD countries were able to close the gender gap in labor force participation rates completely...