More women, more money: why Chile's firms are hiring female execs

Chile's new public-private partnership has high aims: to increase women’s labour force participation, close the wage gap, and get more women into leadership roles. Already more than 90 companies, drawn in by recent research showing that more diversity leads to stronger economic performance, have committed to undergo monitoring of their current gender inequalities and to implement serious change. It is estimated that if women in Latin America and the Caribbean were integrated into the economy to the same extent as men by 2025, the region’s GDP would increase by 14%, or $1.1 trillion.