narrowing the labour force participation gap between men and women by has been estimated to raise annual growth in gdp per capita by percentage points on average thevenon et al second evidence from oecd countries shows that having more women in paid fulltime work results in lower household income inequality harkness oecd therefore policies that focus on increasing the earnings potential of lowerpaid women can reinforce the equalising effect of womens labour market integration despite the fact that chile has made remarkable progress increasing women participation in politics the share of parliamentary seats occupied by women is the lowest in the oecd