Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- Substantive equality for women: The challenge for public policy -- Transforming work for women's rights -- Making social policy work for women -- Towards an enabling macroeconomic environment -- Moving forward: An agenda for public action -- Monitoring women's economic and social rights: The role of gender statistics -- Profile of women and men in the poorest households -- Realizing the right to education -- Right at work: Laws, policies and working conditions -- Right to work: Opportunities, constraints and equality -- The right to social security -- Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women -- UN women regional groupings -- Background Papers -- Endnotes -- References

This UN Women's flagship report shows that, all too often, women's economic and social rights are held back, because they are forced to fit into a 'man's world'. But, it is possible to move beyond the status quo, to picture a world where economies are built with women's rights at their heart. It is being published as the international community comes together to define a transformative post-2015 development agenda, and coincides with the 20th anniversary commemoration of the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China which set out a comprehensive agenda to advance gender equality. This publication brings together human rights and economic policymaking, and provides the key elements for a far-reaching new policy agenda that can transform economies and make women's rights a reality. Through solid in-depth analysis and data, this evidence-based report provides key recommendations on moving towards an economy that truly works for women, for the benefit of all