section paints a comprehensive picture of recent trends in gender gaps spanning a wide range of labour market outcomes and discussing their key drivers section provides a comprehensive set of policy recommendations drawing on recent oecd work as well as on the efforts of other international organisations and on a large policy evaluation literature the most notable improvements have been an unprecedented increase in female labour force participation in some parts of the world and a rapidly shrinking gender education gap however progress has been extremely uneven both across and within countries and female workers continue to have worse jobs than men significant improvements have been recorded in latin america particularly in chile and costa rica where the gap fell by about percentage point per year over the period analysed