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The Role of Structural Fiscal Policy on Female Labor Force Participation in OECD Countries


The article emphasizes the need for greater female representation on corporate boards, particularly in smaller companies where this issue is more pronounced. It challenges the notion of a limited pool of suitable female candidates and criticizes current nomination practices and biases that undervalue women’s contributions. Highlighting successful strategies from diverse companies, it calls for transparency in reporting gender diversity at all management levels to build a qualified female leadership pipeline. State Street’s SSGA Gender Diversity Index, launched in 2016, is mentioned as a tool for investors to support gender-diverse leadership and achieve returns while contributing to gender equality initiatives.

IMF (2023). “The Role of Structural Fiscal Policy on Female Labor Force Participation inOECD Countries”. IMF Working Papers, WP/23/186.

Tackling Gender Inequality: Definitions, Trends, and Policy Designs

Reducing and Redistributing Unpaid Work: Stronger Policies to Support Gender Equality

Evidence review of the global childcare crisis and the road for post-covid-19 recovery and resilience

Childcare, labor supply and business development: Experimental evidence from Uganda

Are Women Not ‘Working’? Interactions between Childcare and Women’s EconomicEngagement

The childcare dividend initiative. Unheard voices: measuringthe urgency for childcare investment and policy reform

Better Jobs and Brighter Futures: Investing in Childcare to Build Human Capital

Gender Equality in International Aid: What has Norwegian Gender Politics Got to Do With It?

The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility

How motherhood hurts careers

The benefits of investing in transformative childcare policy packages towards gender equality and social justice

New data shine light on gender gaps in the labour market

The child care economy: How investments in early care and education can fuel U.S. economic growth immediately and over the long term

Et jevnere utdanningsløp: Barnehage og skole/SFO som innsats mot ulikhet blant barn

The power of parity: How advancing women’s equalitycan add $12 trillion to global growth

Understanding young women’s pathways to economic empowerment & resilience: an exploratory qualitative study of rural communities in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nepal

From Double Burden of Women to a “Double Boon”: Balancing UnpaidCare Work and Paid Work

The economics of early childhood investments

Estimating Care Deficits, Investment Costs and Economic Returns to the case of ECCE in Ethiopia

A Guide to Public Investments in the Care EconomyPolicy Support Tool for Estimating Care Deficits, Investment Costs and Economic Returns

Global gender gap report 2023

Early Childhood Education and Care from a Gender Perspective

Inequalities in early childhood care and development in low/middle-income countries: 2010–2018

Perspectivist Challenges for ECD Intervention in Africa

Accessing childcare: Parents’ logistical challenges and gender equality

Measuring gender equality in education: Lessons from trends in 43 countries

Child Care, Work-Family Policy and Female Entrepreneurship

The kids are alright: working women, schedule flexibility and childcare

The Impact of Childcare on Poor Urban Women’s Economic Empowerment in Africa

The Effect of Childcare Access on Women’s Careers and Firm Performance”

Closing the Gender Gap: Act Now

The gender gap in employment and wages

The gender pay gap and its impact on women’s economic empowerment

Explaining the Gender Gap in Help to Parents: The Importance of Employment

Finance – Governments and households

Investing in early childhood development in preschool and at home

Universal Early Childhood Education and Care for Toddlers and Achievement Outcomes in Middle Childhood.

Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Public spending on childcare as an indicator of gender sensitivity of budget