Women and Men in OECD Countries
33 pages; PDF.

From the intro:

The OECD exists to promote policies designed “to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of
living”. We are proud of the role we play in helping countries learn from one another in achieving these goals, and in identifying ‘best practice’ in
a very broad range of policies, from education and pensions to macroeconomic policy and trade.

To identify best practice, the OECD develops indicators which illustrate some vital differences in experience, across countries, over time and
across different groups. Such indicators are not plucked from thin air. Rather, they are the product of many years of painstaking work in
identifying the issue, getting agreement across countries, collecting and standardising data. For many years now, we have been trying to improve analysis by collecting statistics separately for women and men. Outcomes for women and men are very different across many different areas of life, and policies have to reflect this. Best practice across countries in many areas of policy cannot be ‘gender-blind’.

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