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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
SOCIETY AT A GLANCE: ASIA/PACIFIC 2014 [31 October 2014]
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[read online, 134 pages]
This is the third edition of Society at a Glance Asia/Pacific, a regularly updated OECD overview of social indicators, which addresses the growing demand for quantitative evidence on social well-being and its trends. This report starts with an introductory chapter providing a guide to help readers understanding the OECD Social Indicator framework. Chapters 2 and three are special thematic chapters to address two increasingly topical issues in the social debate: Gender Equality in Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship and Social Protection Expenditure.
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· Pensions at a Glance Asia/Pacific 2013
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Acronyms and conventional signs
Executive summary
Chapter 1. Introduction to Society at a Glance Asia/Pacific
Chapter 2. Gender equality in the "three Es" in the Asia/Pacific region
Chapter 3. Looking at social protection globally, in the OECD and in the Asia/Pacific region
Chapter 4. General context indicators
Chapter 5. Self-sufficiency indicators
Chapter 6. Equity indicators
Chapter 7. Health indicators
Chapter 8. Social cohesion indicators
Press Release 31 October 2014
Women still struggling in labour market in Asia Pacific, says OECD
http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/women-still-struggling-in-labour-market-in-asia-pacific.htm
31/10/2014 - Gains in education have helped narrow the gender gap in the labour market in Asia Pacific but many challenges remain, according to a new OECD report.
Society at a Glance : Asia Pacific 2014 says that educational attainment and participation among women continue to improve in the region and have helped drive economic growth. But women are still more likely to earn less than men and in insecure jobs, less likely to advance in their career and do more unpaid work.
Although there is large variation across the Asia Pacific region, countries like Japan, Korea and Singapore are top-performers in the OECD PISA assessment. But gender stereotypes are nurtured at early stage of life, and so far fewer girls pursue science and engineering degrees.
This trend also translates into employment. A large gender gap can be still found in areas of entrepreneurship, labour force participation, salary, and the share of part-time employment. To tackle this situation, the OECD says that governments have an important role to play by acting as a role model in advancing equality of opportunity: in many countries, the share of women in parliament increased from 2005 to 2012.
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