Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
2013 OECD Recommendation of the Council on Gender Equality in Education, Employment
and Entrepreneurship
The 2013 OECD Recommendation of the Council on Gender Equality in Education, Employment
and Entrepreneurship recommends adopting practices that promote gender equality in
education, promoting family-friendly policies and working conditions which enable
fathers and mothers to balance their working hours and their family responsibilities
and facilitate women to participate more in private and public sector employment.
It also recommends increasing the representation of women in decision-making position,
eliminating the discriminatory gender wage gap, promoting all appropriate measures
to end sexual harassment in the workplace, reducing the gender gap in entrepreneurship
activity, and paying attention to the special needs of women from disadvantaged minority
groups and migrant women.
Published on July 28, 2017Also available in: French