The OECD Development Centre is committed to producing policy-relevant tools, evidence and data that can advance gender equality and women’s empowerment. Through its gender programme, the OECD Development Centre is supporting governments and the development community at the global, regional and national levels to track progress and design evidence-based policies to promote sustainable and transformative […]

The OECD Development Centre is an independent platform for knowledge sharing and policy dialogue between OECD member countries and developing economies, allowing these countries to interact on an equal footing. The Centre draws attention to emerging systemic issues likely to have an impact on global development and more specific development challenges faced by today’s developing […]

International Women’s Day 2016 This year, we prepared two special pages on Wikigender to give more visibility to the work done by the OECD and Wikigender partners on gender equality. In addition, the gender team at the OECD Development Centre organised a high-level event on 9 March on “2030 Agenda: Gender Equality, Social Norms and Inclusive Growth“. See […]

Findings of the HeForShe Parity Report were revealed during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos at an IMPACT 10x10x10 event. Ten of the world’s leading companies have released new workforce gender diversity figures. The ten companies are: AccorHotels, Barclays, Koc Holding, McKinsey & Company, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Schneider Electric, Tupperware Brands, Twitter, Unilever, and Vodafone. Results Main […]

There has been a lot of media coverage of the World Economic Forum 2016 annual meeting in Davos, in particular on gender equality at Davos. Here’s a selection of articles on the topic: Lack of women still a hot topic at Davos (CNBC 25.01.2016) What It’s Like Being One Of The Lone Women In Davos (Fortune […]