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The gender wage gap is defined as the difference between median earnings of men and women relative to median earnings …
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The OECD review of Gender Equality in Peru: Towards a Better Sharing of Paid and Unpaid Work is the second of a series … focusing on Latin American and the Caribbean countries. It compares gender gaps in labour and educational outcomes in Peru with … report reviews the evidence on gender gaps and on what causes these, including the role played by attitudes. The second part …
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Literacy in the 21st century is about constructing and validating knowledge. Digital technologies have enabled the spread of all kinds of information, displacing traditional formats of usually more carefully curated information such as encyclopaedias and newspapers. The massive information flow...
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This paper synthesises the main policy implications of OECD work focusing on the interplay between participation and positioning in global value chains (GVCs), employment demand and supply and workforce’s skills endowment. They relate to: the way innovation, technology and participation in...
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The report New insights from TALIS 2013: Teaching and learning in primary and upper secondary education (OECD, 2014a) presents an overview of teachers and teaching in primary and upper secondary education for a sample of countries that participated in the OECD Teaching and Learning International...
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In all of the OECD countries, employment is seen to be sharply segregated by gender, with women's employment heavily … population ageing. These transformations represent a major challenge for women's employment and for gender equality in the labour …
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Equal pay is no longer discussed simply in relation to equal work. Equal pay for work of equal value has, in some countries, become a critical objective of policies against discrimination in employment. This report describes the degree to which the concept of work of equal value has been...
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Gender equality is not just about fairness and equity; it is also about economic empowerment and economic growth …. Estonia has made great strides towards gender equality. Girls today outperform boys in educational attainment, but they are … less likely than boys to study mathematics or information and communication technology. The gender employment gap is small …
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