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Women's participation in economics is lower than in any other social science. By many measures, the gender gap in economics is the largest of any discipline. For example, women received about 30% of doctorate and bachelor's degrees in economics in 2014, compared with 45% to 60% of degrees in business, humanities, and the STEM fields. [16]
Women are irrational, unfit economic agents, and cannot be trusted to make the right economic decisions. Feminist economists also examine early economic thinkers' interaction or lack of interaction with gender and women's issues, showing examples of women's historical engagement with economic thought.
In April 2023, WIPO Director General Daren Tang announced the organization's commitment to closing the gender gap and empowering women and girls around the world by encouraging them to utilize their intellectual property rights to support economic growth: "Our data shows that women are using the global intellectual property system less than men ...
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the workforce in many ways, especially for women. While women have made great strides in closing the gender pay gap over the last several decades, the pandemic ...
Women's education is one of the major explanatory variables behind the rates of social and economic development, [1] and has been shown to have a positive correlation with both. [2] [3] According to notable economist Lawrence Summers, "investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world."
In rural areas of selected developing countries, women performed an average of 20 per cent more work than men, or an additional 102 minutes per day. In the OECD countries surveyed, on average women performed 5 per cent more work than men or 20 minutes per day when both paid employment and unpaid household tasks are taken into account. [17]
Thanks to the tremendous support from all the partners of the Women's Forum, Corazza proposed 27 recommendations, outlined in the report "Women at the Heart of the Economy" and designed to enable women to be where they can have a positive and decisive social and economic impact in order to bring their added value to a rapidly changing world.
The 14 women here prove there’s no one way to make a difference—you can start right where you are. Below, they share their goals, their mantras, how they define success, and what they hope ...