This Recommendation offers a whole-of-government policy arsenal commonly agreed upon among OECD Members that governments can use to close remaining gender gaps in public life, scale up inclusive approaches to policy making and public service delivery, and monitor continuous progress.
This paper analyses two-way interactions between monetary policy and inequality in selected advanced economies. In the context of a highly accommodative monetary stance over recent years, the analysis focuses on the effects of monetary policy on inequality over the business cycle via its impacts on returns on assets, the cost of debt servicing and asset prices.
OECD countries have agreed to work towards greater gender equality in public life – including in governments, parliaments and judiciaries – with concrete measures to improve women’s access to leadership and decision-making roles and integrate more of a gender perspective into public policies.
This paper investigates the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and economy-wide disposable income inequality.
Governments should rethink city housing, transport and other urban systems to ensure that fast-growing cities do not become inequality traps, according to a new OECD report showing that a majority of cities have higher levels of inequality than the national average.
This paper reviews the key issues concerning the impact of public spending and taxation on long-run growth and inequality and takes stock of existing theoretical and empirical studies.
This paper provides evidence on the effects of the size and the composition of public spending on long-term growth and inequality.
8 March 2018, Paris - On the occasion of International Woman's Day, senior decision-makers from the public and corporate worlds, experts, academics and stakeholders considered different policy approaches and implementation tools on how to close gender gaps in the private sector.
PwC Australia is pleased to announce it was selected by The Workplace Gender Equality Agency WGEA as one of 90 organisations in Australia as an Employer of Choice in 2015.
Taylor Swift political awakening was on display in full flourish at the MTV Video Music Awards on Monday night.
In a new fashion spread for The EDI T, the 38-year-old actress is seen channelling the late star as she wears a red flared trouser suit with matching heels while leaning back with a cane.
Emma Watson attended the first meeting for the G7 (Group of Seven) Advisory Council For Gender Equality with French President Emmanuel Macron in Elysee Palace, Paris on Tuesday.
Bill Beaumont or Agustin Pichot, the rivals standing next month to lead World Rugby, must be shocked into a drastic overhaul of the game following the coronavirus pandemic.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that he believes it will take more than 20 months to fully rebuild New York City and announces different councils that will focus on reopening the Big Apple.
Ivanka Trump will have a 'big part' of the Republican convention, her father said, and will speak about 'gender equality' at the party confab in Cleveland this month.
The pop princess, 24, shared her take on the different pressures placed on male and female artists as she stars on one of five special covers for the June issue of GQ - dedicated to the NHS and key workers.
Foreign aid chiefs have been told to improve how they manage the £4.2billion being spent on boosting gender equality overseas. In the past £4million has been spent on Yegna, Ethiopa's answer to the Spice Girls.
Sainsbury's customer, Rachael Stevens, and her guide dog Pippa, were not allowed into the store, despite clear markings on the dog's livery.
Nike on Sunday launched a star-studded short film titled "Equality" that coincides with Black History Month.
On World Radio Day, Ammu Joseph looks at the representation of women in Indian radio and wonders if the medium can play a more significant role in ensuring empowerment and equal participation.
World Bank funding of development projects in Andhra Pradesh is criticized by
rights activists in the state who argue that conditions for the poor
are worsening.
Megan Rapinoe and the US women's soccer team were left 'shocked and disappointed' after federal judged dismissed their bid for equal pay.
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Written by Ina Bort In our last two posts, we explored the life of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont and dropped in at her Marble House suffrage conferences in Newport, where “Votes for Women” plates like this one may very well have been used. But it may be that these plates were instead (or also) used—that is,...
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Mathematica received a score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s recently released 2020 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), earning the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.
Women from Silicon Valley joined the thousands that marched on Washington DC to protest the Trump Administration. WIRED joins a group of women in tech on their journey to the Capitol to fight for science, climate change action, immigration rights and equality.