This report is published by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV) under the direction of Elsa Pilichowski, Director, and the aegis of the OECD Public Governance Committee (PGC) and its Working Party on Gender Mainstreaming and Governance (GMG). The OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee (ELSAC) and its Working Party on Social Policy (WPSP) also reviewed Sections of the report. Parts of the report were also developed by the OECD Development Centre (DEV) under the aegis of its Governing Board.
This report is produced as part of the OECD work programme on Gender Equality in Public Life led by Tatyana Teplova, Head of Division, Policy Coherence for SDGs, and Senior Counsellor for Gender, Justice and Inclusiveness, GOV; and as part of DEV’s Gender Programme, led by Bathylle Missika, Head of Division, Networks, Partnerships and Gender. This report falls within the broader OECD Horizontal Gender Initiative, led by Monika Queisser, Senior Counsellor and Head of Social Policy in the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS). The report was co-ordinated by Pınar Güven, Policy Analyst and Capucine Kerboas, Junior Policy Analyst in GOV. Strategic guidance on the preparation of this report was provided by Tatyana Teplova. The main authors of this report are Alejandra Saffon, Ashley Major and Réka Mihácsi (Chapters 1, 3, 4 and 6), Hyeshin Park and Carolin Beck (Chapter 2) and Valerie Frey and Maja Gustafsson (Chapter 5). The authors are grateful to Meeta Tarani, Giulia Morando, Sebla Ayşe Kazancı, Marycarmen Rubalcava Oliveros, Dorothy Adams, Nancy Napolitano, Hannah Brügmann, Sanya Chandra and Alejandra Maria Meneses for their valuable comments on various versions of the report.
Melissa Sander, Victoria Elliott, Adem Kocaman and Meral Gedik provided editing, logistical and publishing support.