Women gain key economic benefits from greater trade - study

Trade increases women’s wages and helps close the wage gap between men and women while creating better jobs for women, a new World Bank Group report said.

Countries that are open to international trade tend to grow faster, innovate, improve productivity, and provide higher income and more opportunities to their people. Countries that are more open to trade, as measured by the trade-to-GDP ratio, have higher levels of gender equality. The report, produced in collaboration with the World Trade Organization, marks the first major effort to quantify how women are affected by trade using a new gender-disaggregated dataset.

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