closing the gender gap in the labour force promotes diversity and stability and improves the competiveness and integrity of the recruitment process for both public and private sector employment in fact estimates from an oecd study suggest that reducing the gender gap in employment is correlated with an increased impetus for economic growth amounting to an overall rise of of gdp over years in oecd countries oecd a the study found that oecd countries that currently have larger gaps in employment would have higher gains in gdp if the gender gap were to be reduced oecd a evidence from global studies also suggests that women tend to spend a greater share of their income on the education and health of their children and therefore an improvement of wage equality for women often translates to better welfare outcomes for individuals within the household qian