IFC & UNESCO Launch Global Report on Gender Gaps in Education & Employment in Manila

• Government officials, education professionals, and private sector leaders convened in Manila for an excessive-level event
• The occasion marked the release of the global report Closing the Gender Gap in Education and Employment

Government officers, education specialists, and private quarter leaders amassed at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila for the launch of the global report closing the Gender Gap in Education and Employment. The document, posted through the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in collaboration with UNESCO, become unveiled at an occasion co-prepared by UNESCO and the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines (UNACOM).

Despite extraordinary development in girls’ schooling, the document highlights a chronic disconnect among educational achievement and employment consequences. Women in the Philippines and international are increasingly outpacing guys in tertiary training however stay underrepresented in STEM fields and face ongoing salary gaps and profession development barriers.

Hiromichi Katayama of UNESCO's Jakarta office emphasised that schooling by me is not enough: “Women want real get admission to first-class jobs. That way making workplaces extra inclusive and removing the limitations that keep limiting their potential.”

A key factor in the back of this gap is occupational segregation, with ladies focused in traditionally lower-paid fields like training and healthcare, even as guys dominate high-paying technical and managerial roles. Even among girl STEM graduates, pay disparities and underrepresentation in management persist, pushed by means of structural issues along with hiring biases, administrative center discrimination, and confined get right of entry to professional networks.

The document underscores that bridging the gender employment hole isn't always handiest approximately equity however additionally approximately financial growth—with studies showing that casting off these disparities may want to increase worldwide GDP by way of up to 20 percent.

UNACOM Secretary General Dr. Ivan Anthony Henares known as the document “a call to action,” urging that its findings be widely shared and applied. Participants on the occasion agreed at the want for coordinated efforts to improve college-to-work transitions and make certain equitable employment opportunities for women.