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On the right-hand side of the chart, Northern European countries with generous paternity leaves, like Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, tend to have high male participation in household labor and higher-than-average birth rates for the OECD.

"We are forecasting basically a downgrade for almost everybody," Alvaro Pereira, the OECD's chief economist told the BBC.

That's the 8th highest among the 38 member countries of the OECD.

That would make it the fourth best performer in the G7 group of rich nations, according to the OECD, external, behind the US, Canada and France, but ahead of Italy, Germany and Japan.

South Korea has the largest gender pay gap in the OECD, a group of the world's rich countries.