The economic cost of gender - based discrimination in social institutions

Note from the OECD Development Centre, June 2016

Key messages 

• Discriminatory social institutions  not only  hold back achieving gender equality but also  matter for  economic growth .
• Gender - based discrimination in social institutions cost s up to US D 12 trillion  for  the  global economy .
• Gradually reducing  discrimination in social institutions could lead to an annual  average  increase in the world GDP growth rate of 0.03 to 0.6 percentage points by 2030 .
• Tackling  discriminatory social institutions should be integrated into national growth and development  strategies and mainstreamed in global deve lopment approaches .