Despite improvements, women still spend five fewer hours per week in paid work than men
Changes in employment rate since the onset of the COVID‑19 pandemic (Panel A), in the first year of the pandemic (Panel B) and over the second and third year (Panel C)
Priority areas in gender equality
Gains in economic growth from closing gender participation and working hours gaps
Women continue to be largely underrepresented in national parliaments
The share of DAC members’ ODA for gender equality stopped growing after a decade on the rise
Law and binding decisions on gender mainstreaming and equality are the most common type of provision to promote gender mainstreaming
Units located within the Centre of Government have progressively become the most common institutional arrangement for gender equality in the OECD area
Across OECD countries, the most common GIA requirements are for laws and regulations
Lack of financial and human resources is a key barrier for statistics disaggregated by gender