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What is Human Capital Formation

Human Capital Formation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Transforming a country’s citizens to workers with the capacity to efficiently produce goods and render services.
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Closing the Gender Gap in Human Capital Formation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Tinuke Fapohunda (Department of Industrial Relations and Human Resources Management, Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9810-7.ch008
Abstract
Disparities in gender calculations in several nations have originated turbulence in multinational platforms in the recent past. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals list gender equality and women empowerment as the fifth of the eight goals. This study scrutinizes the gender gaps in human capital formation. It demonstrated the economic cost of gender inequality in human capital formation (losses in human capital attributable to gender inequality are estimated at $160.2 trillion) and considered some clear-cut involvements that can ease the realization of greater equality. To boost women's human capital formation, investments throughout the life cycle are obligatory. Successful involvements can be affected to tackle time use restrictions, support access to productive assets, and resolve market and institutional disappointments that reprimand women. Spending on girls and women is indispensable not only to boosting gender equality and the changing wealth of nations but also allowing nations to grow in maintainable manners.
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