Closing the gender gap would transform the world we live in--for men, for women, for the better. Just imagine a world in which you have more time to spend doing the things you love, with the people you love. Imagine a world
Closing the gender gap would transform the world we live in--for men, for women, for the better. Just imagine a world in which you have more time to spend doing the things you love, with the people you love. Imagine a world in which you have secure, decent work in an economy that is growing. Imagine a world in which nobody feels they are carrying the burden of caring for their families alone. Imagine relationships with less bickering and more ch-ck-a-bow-wow.
1. Get to work: If you look at all the hours of paid work that folks performed last year, you will see that men performed more hours of paid work than women did. Women are more likely to work part-time than are men: 27% of working women work part-time, compared to 12% of working men. And that’s the way it’s been for 30 years. Now, not everyone wants or needs to work, or to work full time. But plenty of folks do need to work. And the gap between women's and men's hours of paid work is not merely the result of choice. It is the result of specific barriers that are stopping women from being able to get the paid work they need. For example, since women perform twice as many hours of unpaid work as do men, they have less time to seek paid work and sustain full-time work. When we remove the barriers that stop women who want or need to work from having access to that work, everyone benefits. A recent analysis of developed countries, estimates that closing the gap between male and female employment rates would boost GDP by at