普华永道：2019年女性就业指数（英文版）(44页).pdf

1、Women in Work Index 2019 Turning policies into effective action March 2019 PwCPwCContents Contents March 2019Women in work index Foreword2 1. Executive summary3 2. Key Index results9 3. Potential economic gains from improving female economic empowerment 12 4. UK and regional performance15 5. Special

2、 focus China and India21 6. Turning Policies into Effective Action27 Appendices Appendix 1: Individual labour market indicators 30 Appendix 2: Methodology 36 PwC PwC2 Foreword March 2019Women in work index International Womens Day 2019 marks yet another year of continued steps to improve the represe

3、ntation and welfare of women in the world of work. From the first world leader taking maternity leave, to the overwhelming response to #metoo, working women everywhere are increasingly asserting their right to be respected and treated fairly at work. However, women in the Organisation for Economic C

4、o-operation and Development (OECD) still face significant challenges and inequalities in the workplace. The pay gap persists and women are still under-represented in corporate leadership, with women accounting for only one-in-five of board seats in the largest publicly-listed companies in the OECD.

5、Clearly, there is still a long way to go before we can achieve a gender-equal workplace. The Women in Work Index shows that while progress continues to be made across 33 OECD countries, the pace of progress is slow. But there is a huge prize at stake from accelerating progress: Improving female part

6、icipation in work across the OECD could boost OECD GDP by US$6 trillion, while closing the gender pay gap could boost GDP by US$2 trillion. Iceland and Sweden continue to occupy the top two positions on the Index while New Zealand moves up one place to round off the top three. The UK made some small