The big fallacy in the gender equality argument is that creating new jobs for women will not impact existing jobs for men. If companies create an additional 600,000 jobs for women, where is the new business demand that will support such growth? Most likely there won't be enough demand, hence companies will realign their workforce to meet new gender equality norms, with a net negative impact on future job prospects for men. Promoting gender equality may have some additional lift in GDP initially but is not the Pangaea made out by consultants or the corporate world. However it resonates well with the progressive left crowd and gets politicians elected. Because it's 2017!