The Power of Parity: How Advancing Women's Equality can Add $12 Trillion to Global Growth

In this report, McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) undertakes a comprehensive attempt to date to estimate the size of the economic potential from achieving gender parity and to map gender inequality. Using 15 indicators of gender equality in 95 countries, they identify ten “impact zones”—concentrations of gender inequality that account for more than three-quarters of the women in the world affected by the gender gap—that they hope will help prioritise action.

In addition, MGI has developed a Gender Parity Score, or GPS, that gives a view of what will help to close the gender gap.