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Increasing the number of working women in Morocco is necessary to facilitate overall inclusive socioeconomic development. Ample evidence demonstrates that gender equality is instrumental to improve household welfare and stimulate economic growth in a sustainable way2 , which is why closing the gender gap in the labor market is central to the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. The Gender Employment Gap Index (GEGI), which is equal to the size of long-run GDP per capita gains from closing gender employment gaps,suggests that closing the gender gap in labor force participation in Morocco would spur an increase in GDP per capita of nearly 50 percent (Figure 1). A similar result is obtained when analogous indicators are computed: closing Morocco's gender employment gaps would yield an average gain in per capita GDP of almost 40 percent3 .