GDP is a poor signal because these huge middle class salaries for breadwinners in the US, Japan and S. Korea actually held gender balance back for decades. Wife will be expected to quit her job and dedicate herself to the family when her husband made five figures USD annually.
Countries where both sexes were expected to work, for the same ballpark of four figures salaries, and where child care / child leave were subsidied becase of said lowish salaries got a comparative gender balance advantage out of their mediocre economies.
Countries where both sexes were expected to work, for the same ballpark of four figures salaries, and where child care / child leave were subsidied becase of said lowish salaries got a comparative gender balance advantage out of their mediocre economies.