Increasing the female employment rate to match that of Sweden could boost GDP by US$6 trillion

Increasing the female employment rate to match that of Sweden could boost GDP by US$6 trillion

If the female employment rate across the OECD matched that of Sweden, OECD GDP could be boosted by over US$6 trillion, according to PwC’s latest Women in Work Index, which analyses female economic empowerment across 33 OECD countries.

Between 2017 and 2018, the OECD continued to achieve incremental gains to female economic empowerment. Iceland and Sweden retained the top two positions for the fifth year in a row, with Slovenia in third place. Czechia experienced the biggest improvement in its ranking of all OECD countries, rising four places from 23rd to 19 th , owing to small but positive improvements […]

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