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Shaping the Future of Education, Gender and Work
How can talent be reinforced through public-private cooperation to meet the demands of the 21st century?
Technological change will have a significant impact on job creation and displacement, skills gaps, education and gender gaps. Preparing talent will be key for ensuring that the economy and society fully reap the opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This will require breaking down old silos between education systems and labor markets, new, agile approaches to regulation and public-private collaboration.
The system initiative on Education, Gender and Work aims to ensure that talent is developed, nurtured and deployed for maximum benefit to the economy and society, by mobilizing business, governments and civil society leaders to rethink education, close skills gaps, accelerate gender parity and boost employment. Read more here.
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Initiatives
India Skills Initiative
With roughly 500 million workers, India’s labour force is currently the second largest in the world and is projected to be the largest by 2030. As more than half of India’s population is ...
A New Vision for Arab Employment
The MENA region has the highest youth unemployment rate in the world (29%, 2012), a rate that is expected to increase at the current socio-economic pace. In light of long-term economic as...
Africa Skills Initiative
With annual growth rates of 5%, Africa is on the rise. Its transformative journey from a developing continent to a hub of global growth offers hope to the next generation for a more prosp...
Japan Gender Parity Task Force
Launched in 2012, the task force is a unique public-private collaboration aimed at achieving a breakthrough in gender equality in Japan. It promotes a solutions-oriented, integrated appro...
Korea Gender Parity Task Force
Launched in 2014, the Korea Gender Parity Task Force is supporting the analysis of gender gaps in the local workforce and the development and implementation of shared strategies to narrow...
Mexico Gender Parity Task Force
Under the leadership of Angelica Fuentes and Carlos Danel, the task force addresses the challenge of how to integrate more women into Mexico’s economy. It aims to narrow the economic gend...
Turkey Gender Parity Task Force
The task force is a new strategic multistakeholder collaboration that aims to achieve a breakthrough in gender equality in Turkey. Under the patronage of the Ministry of Family and Social...
Articles
The invisible lives of the girls who get left behind
Girls and young women are held back by harmful social norms, by lack of access to education and training, by inadequate reproductive health resources, and by the all-too-real risk of gend...
South-East Asia's digital jobs revolution – in 5 charts
From Singapore to Myanmar, economies across South East Asia will need to equip their workforces for rapid technological change. How will they do it?
Asia needs a world-class university. Here's what it would look like
It is high time that Asia develops its own centres of learning – ones that cater to what the region needs: new ideas to help solve new challenges.
Reports
The Global Gender Gap Report 2016
Through the Global Gender Gap Report, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress over time, with a specific focus on the relative ga...
The Human Capital Report 2016
The Human Capital Index seeks to serve as a tool for capturing the complexity of education, employment and workforce dynamics so that various stakeholders are able to make better-informed...
Closing the Economic Gender Gap: Learning from the Gender Parity Task Forces
In the 10 years since the World Economic Forum began measuring the economic gender gap it has narrowed by only 3% globally. In addition to the individual actions of employers and governme...
Human Capital Outlook: Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will disrupt business models and bring both challenges and opportunities to labour markets over the next five years, with enormous change predicted in the...
The Future of Jobs
Skills and jobs displacement will affect every industry and geographical region, but losses can be offset by job growth in key areas.
Global Gender Gap Report 2015
The Global Gender Gap Index featured in the 2015 Report ranks over 140 economies according to how well they are leveraging their female talent pool, based on economic, educational, health...
Closing the Gender Gap: The Gender Parity Taskforces
As gender parity becomes a strategic priority for organizations and governments, demand is increasing for translating insights into multistakeholder dialogue, collaboration and action to ...
Disrupting Unemployment
The Disrupting Unemployment report consolidates information on business-led partnerships for addressing skills gaps, fostering entrepreneurship and facilitating the talent market. This in...