The International Scenario on Gender Gaps

Paola Profeta, Livia Amidani Aliberti, Alessandra Casarico, Marilisa D’Amico and Anna Puccio
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Marilisa D’Amico: State University of Milan
Anna Puccio: Accenture Italian Foundation

Chapter 2 in Women Directors, 2014, pp 11-40 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Though life is improving for women around the globe, gender-based disparities are still a widespread phenomenon. These inequalities are multi-faceted and concern especially economic participation and involvement in politics. Data on employment rates indicate that on average women do not fare as well as men. In some European countries the gap in employment rates is limited; in others it is huge. In some countries, with Italy among them, less than one woman in two participates in the labour market. According to the World Economic Forum, political empowerment is the area in which the progress of women is slowest and the gap with men the widest, with women holding only 18% of power compared with men. Though the economic status of women has changed over recent decades at different paces across the world, the quiet revolution, as Goldin (2006) labels it in her work, is still incomplete and unequal opportunities and outcomes still persist (Esping-Andersen, 2009). As amply discussed in the IMF’s Finance and Development Report issued in June 2013, equality at the top — in economic policymaking, in politics, in jobs that offer decision-making power — remains an aspiration.

Keywords: Labour Market; Woman Director; Female Labour Force Participation; World Economic Forum; European Average (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137427489_2

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