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Closing the gender gap may seem like a tall order, but it is essential for long-term economic development and prosperity.
Unfortunately, while many countries have made progress in reducing gender gaps in primary-school enrollment, there is still much more work to be done at the secondary and tertiary levels.
Feminizing the Command LineBRUSSELS – This year, International Women’s Day is focused on “inspiring change” and challenging the status quo to achieve gender equity worldwide.
Moreover, given that organizations with more women in management achieve a 35% higher return on equity and 34% better total return to shareholders than their counterparts, greater gender parity would be a boon for the sector.
Addressing the technology sector’s gender gap must begin at the university level, with a diverse range of students – especially women – being encouraged to pursue tech studies.
Although more attention is being given to gender issues, inequality persists in every culture, country, and continent.
Though women have the right to vote in almost every country, gender inequalities in political representation remain large.
Governments should consider gender quotas at the local level of politics.
Greater female representation may not necessarily lead to more emphasis on “female” policy priorities, but in India, village councils with gender quotas for village chiefs have higher levels of safe drinking water, better immunization coverage and roads, and less bribery.
But the opposite is also true: strong, properly enforced land rights can boost growth, reduce poverty, strengthen human capital, promote economic fairness (including gender equity), and support social progress more broadly.
It should also focus on issues that make particular groups of people vulnerable because of their gender, age, religion, or poverty.
This year, on the International Day for Disaster Reduction, we want to shine a light on women and girls, and to recognize what they are already doing to build their communities’ resilience in places where gender is not a barrier to their full participation in public life.
The Colombian government’s pioneering approach seems to have benefited from a gender sub-commission that considered proposals from nongovernmental organizations representing women’s rights and the LGBT community.
Superficially, it may seem as if we have reached that breakthrough moment at which gender is no longer the most important issue.
Character, not gender, drives the narrative.
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel, having won three general elections, is respected or resented for her austerity policies, not for her gender.
Race, color, and gender were never supposed to be obstacles to full and equal civic participation.
The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) has estimated that advancing gender equality could add $12 trillion per year to the world economy by 2025.
At the company level, a growing body of evidence shows that more gender equality is good for bottom lines.
If given the opportunity, women could be leading innovators in the age of automation and artificial intelligence, and could help to ensure that algorithms are free of gender bias.
WASHINGTON, DC – On March 8, the world will celebrate International Women’s Day, an annual opportunity to recommit to gender equality.
But while women in the developed world are waging big battles over gender bias, women and girls in developing countries remain focused on smaller victories.
On this International Women’s Day, we must not forget that in the world’s poorest communities, poverty, hunger, domestic violence, and discrimination remain endemic obstacles to gender parity.
I have studied gender and development in the Global South for 15 years.
Benchmarking has been moving to the policy arena, including issues such as sustainable development, the business environment, competitiveness, gender parity, and, more recently, inclusive growth.
These gender gaps represent a major generational challenge for large and small businesses alike.
Part of the reason for this, at least in the US, is that the Democratic Party’s embrace of identity politics (highlighting inclusiveness along lines of gender, race, and sexual orientation) and other socially liberal causes came at the expense of the bread-and-butter issues of incomes and jobs.
People who cross gender boundaries suffer clear discrimination.
But the broader problem remains that people who are uncertain about their gender identification, move between genders, or have both female and male sexual organs do not fit into the standard male/female dichotomy.
The new system also allows people to choose their gender identity, which need not match the sex assigned to them at birth.
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