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[tisogai]

Dear Teachers, please help me understand the underlined part below. I've read it many times, but don't really understand... will you please put it into a different sentence for me. Thanks so much.
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The increase in female employment has also accounted for a large part of global growth in recent decades. GDP growth can come from three sources: employing more people, using more capital per worker, or an increase in the productivity of lobor and capital due to new technology. Since 1970 women have filled two new jobs for every one take by a man. The employment of extra women has not only added more to GDP than new jobs for men but also given more than either capital investment or increased productivity. Analyze the world's economic growth in a different way and another surprising conclusion emerges: over the past decade or so, the increased employment of women in developed economies has contributed much more to global growth than China has.

[pugachevV]

This means that the increased employment of women in the period under discussion, has contributed more to the Gross Domestic Product than new jobs for men, or capital investment, or increased productivity over the same period.