i'm here to meet kalponik culture she is leading the push for gender and diversity here to find out what country should be doing to capitalize on a sure fire way to grow capital. when we talk about women's empowerment in the workforce of course we're talking about equal opportunities we're talking about let's face it human rights but to a certain extent all we're just talking about money this is about growth too isn't it we believe that talent is distributed equally between men and women inherently and putting artificial barriers on half of your population. means that you're not getting the best talent into the workforce and that has an impact of productivity that has an impact on profits and ultimately that has an impact on income and the numbers are quite startling they range from about 5 to 10 percent even in advanced countries like the u.s. or western europe 2 very large numbers ranging to 35 percent in kind some countries in the middle east and south asia so these are not trivial amounts of money and one of the main barrys that you're specifically seeing here at the i.m.f. across th