U.S. Strategy on Global Women's Economic Security.

The United States Government developed this first-ever interagency Strategy to advance Women's Economic Security globally, which lays out a vision in which women and girls around the world are able to fully, meaningfully, and equally contribute to, and benefit from, economic growth and global prosperity. This Strategy addresses the impact of intersectional discrimination and bias based on race, gender, and other factors, including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or sex characteristics, ethnicity, religion, disability, etc. This strategy provides high-level guidance to U.S. Government Departments and Agencies on priorities for advancing women's economic security globally, among other priorities, while allowing flexibility to Departments and Agencies to determine how best to advance and strengthen their women's economic security work. U.S. Government Departments and Agencies will address these challenges and barriers by working to promote quality education accessible to all, and incentivizing governments and families to improve girls' access to school and improve retention, including flexibility for pregnant and adolescent girls with caregiving responsibilities.
The Strategy remains central to increasing women's entrepreneurship, job creation, and their overall economic empowerment. The Strategy will advocate incorporating a multi-layered intersectional approach into the design of data collection systems and work to increase the capacity, encouraging public financial management that increases gender equality or the use of gender budgeting, including in our own government, to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion in economic recovery and the adoption of measurement tools to track progress. This strategy aims to foster equal access to education, innovation, quality jobs, and decent work, including through entrepreneurship, for women and girls around the world. The vision is a world in which everyone has equitable opportunities for job placement, advancement, quality of life, and leadership. In addition, it aims to promote economic competitiveness through gender equality and women having access to well-paying, quality jobs and decent work to close the wage gap, promote dignity, foster inclusive, vibrant, and growing economies, and promote more stable and prosperous societies globally.