Why gender-responsive economic policies still matter
07 March 2025
ILO
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The Beijing Platform for Action, agreed 30 years ago, provided a pathbreaking framework for addressing gender inequalities and realizing women’s and girls’ human rights in all domains, including in the economy.
Since then, the world economies have changed enormously but the economic agenda the Platform for Action charted remains acutely relevant. Not only because equality between women and men has not been achieved – some gender gaps are persistent and and others are closing at snail speed – but because the underlying root causes for the disadvantaged position of women in the economy remain for the most part stubbornly unchanged, while new and pressing challenges have emerged.
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