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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Gender inequality is a reality.

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When More Women Join the Workforce, Wages Rise — Including for Men

Harvard Business Review

women’s participation in the labor market has nearly doubled, from 34% of working age women (age 16 and older) in the labor force in 1950 to almost 57% in 2016. This deserves a brief side note: Despite increases in GDP per capita, real wages for many workers have been stagnating in recent decades. In the U.S.,