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Social protection for working-age women in Tanzania: Exploring past policy trajectories and simulating future pathsTanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to grapple with important gender inequalities...
Social protection Tanzania WomenBlog
Does access to microfinance help or hinder women’s empowerment?Almost everywhere, women are underrepresented in labour markets compared to men...
Gender equality Gender equality; Labour markets BangladeshBlog
The COVID-19 crisis, informal workers, and gender — understanding the intersections
The COVID-19 crisis — the pandemic, restrictions, and recession — has not been a grand leveler...
Equality and inequality COVID-19 GenderBlog
A fiercely contested omission — or why we need to keep talking about unpaid care
In the late 1950s, the United Nations System of National Accounts was set up to promote the collection of internationally comparable data on productive activity in different countries...
Unpaid labour Gender equality Gender inequalityNews
Pathfinding new book on Social Mobility in Developing Countries out now
Economics social sciences Social mobility Policy Brief
Six sets of policy actions to promote social mobilityPromoting social mobility is an essential task of development, and a multi-faceted one. Precarious livelihoods are widespread. Containing downward mobility is an important precondition for sustaining upward mobility...
Social mobility Poverty InequalityBlog
A summer reading list of our latest papers, articles, and books
At the UNU-WIDER offices here in Helsinki, Finland, the summer holidays are almost upon us. Looking at the list of new UNU-WIDER publications, it is easy to see how much we accomplished this past year, despite the many constraints faced...
Inequality Gender equality Gender inequalityPresentation
Panel on the ‘Structure and drivers of the quantity and quality of women’s work in Latin America’ at the 29th Annual International Association for Feminist EconomicsThe UNU-WIDER project on ‘Women’s work — routes to economic and social empowerment’ presents at the 29th IAFFE Annual Conference, held virtually between 22 – 25 June 2021.
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A macro–micro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin AmericaLatin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality...
Gender equality Latin America MacroeconomicsSeminar
Kunal Sen at WEDGE/EMERGE "Interrogating Gender" SeminarKunal Sen speaks at the WEDGE and EMERGE programme's first web-based discussion on gender equality and data. The discussion explores what we measure in labor force surveys, what we do not count, and how decisions regarding measurement shape...
Project workshop
Women's work – Routes to social and economic empowerment
Project
Women's work – routes to economic and social empowerment
Theme: Transforming societies
Women's economic empowerment Female labour force participation Gender equalityBook Chapter
The role of gender in the extractive industriesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Extractive industries Gender equality Sustainable developmentBlog
Tackling gender inequality from all directions
Improving the position of women continues to be an important concern in development...
Gender equality Development aid SDGsWorking Paper
The role of gender in the extractives industriesIn recognizing that women’s participation and gender equity is a precondition for the achievement of acceptable development outcomes, extractives industry companies are increasingly making public commitments to integrating gender equality, incl...
Extractive industries Gender equality Sustainable development