Joining Forces for Gender Equality, What is Holding us Back? was prepared as an integral part of the OECD’s ongoing Gender Initiative. The report was written under the overall supervision of the OECD Secretary-General, Mathias Cormann and Deputy Secretary-General, Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen.
This publication is the result of extensive teamwork and collaboration across OECD directorates. The OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) led the writing and co‑ordination of chapters of this report, under the senior leadership of Stefano Scarpetta (Director of ELS), Mark Pearson (Deputy Director of ELS) and Monika Queisser (Senior Counsellor and Head of the Social Policy Division). Willem Adema (Senior Economist in ELS) and Valentina Patrini (Social Policy Analyst in ELS) managed the project, supervised the editorial process and peer-reviewed all chapters.
The chapters were written by the following authors: Ashley Acker, Willem Adema, Lyydia Alajääskö, Pablo Antolín, Lorenzo Argirò, Carolin Beck, Valentina Bellesi, Francesca Borgonovi, Erika Bozzay, Anna Bruce, Michelle Cherian, Amal Chevreau, Marta Cignetti, Mollie Cretsinger, Emeline Denis, Romain Despalins, Jean-Christophe Dumont, Marta Encinas-Martín, Elsa Favre‑Baron, Gaëlle Ferrant, Jonas Fluchtmann, Liselott Fredriksson, Valerie Frey, Jacobo García Villarreal, Maja Gustafsson, Pınar Güven, David Halabisky, Michelle Harding, Jenny Hedman, Alexander Hijzen, Diana Hourani, Julien Jarrige, María Camila Jiménez, Erin Kelleher, Kenza Khachani, Miriam Koreen, Jane Korinek, Natalie Laechelt, Marion Lagadic, Ave Lauren, Estelle Loiseau, Mariarosa Lunati, Josephine Macharia, Florence Maher, Marco Marchese, Alejandra Meneses, Bathylle Missika, Chiara Monticone, Letizia Montinari, Giulia Morando, Jessica Mosher, Scherie Nicol, Magdalena Olczak, Hyeshin Park, Valentina Patrini, Stéphanie Payet, Mario Piacentini, Glenda Quintini, Sara Ramos Magana, Marie‑Estelle Rey, Ana María Ruiz, Helen Shymanski, Meeta Tarani, Tatyana Teplova, Chloé Touzet, Elisabeth van Lieshout, Marieke Vandeweyer, Per Anders Widell, Lisa Williams and Dimitra Xynou.
Pauline Fron, Lucy Hulett, Maxime Ladaique, Jayne Maddock, Eva Rauser, Nadia Sánchez Pacheco, Hanna Varkki and Alastair Wood provided editing, logistical and publishing support.