1)  Become Aware of the Gap, Join the Gender Conversation., Look Across the Team on Pay, Fight Against Interruptions, Amplify Women's Voices and Brag for Them, Diversify Candidates and Interviewers, Let Women Make Their Own Decisions.

To catalyse closing the economic gender gap focus on:

National Level Action: The accelerator model brings together public and private sector leaders, generally Ministers and CEO's, to generate local insight, develop local needs-based action plans and drive their execution.Global Learning Network: Each country accelerator along with knowledge countries are part of a global platform, to enable the acceleration of learning through the exchange of insights and experience.Closing the Gender Gap Playbook: The Playbook looks to provide a guide for stakeholders with tools, resources and processes for action to achieve economic gender parity.

Country Portfolio: Closing the Gender Gap Accelerators (CGGA) are currently established in nine countries representing three global regions. The goal is to expand the model to every continent to build a broad global network to accelerate gender parity.

2)  Gender equality seems like a faraway dream these days. 6hile progress has been made, the numbers from groups like UN Women tell a discouraging story. Over 2 billion women don’t have the same employment options as men. At the current rate, it will take about a century to close the global pay gap. While human trafficking affects men and women, women and girls make up over 70% of the world’s human trafficking victims. In the face of this data, gender equality needs to be a priority. Why? Here are 10 reasons why it’s important:

Because of their lack of empowerment and resources in many places, women and girls face life-threatening risks. Natural disasters are one example. At the 2005 World Conference on Disaster Reduction, experts discussed how gender inequality plays a role in death and injury. Other data shows that climate change, which makes natural disasters more dangerous, puts women and girls in even more vulnerable positions. Bringing a gender perspective into discussions allows women to play a bigger role in their own protection.

In addition, it is an untapped benefit to the world economy: estimates show that closing the gender gap could increase global GDP by 35 per cent on average. ... Women's equal access to financial services not only unlocks economic potential, but also gives women a say in their own financial decisions.