The paper argues for increasing women's economic opportunities in the APEC region and states that women's participation … informal economy. It summarizes the challenges commonly encountered by women entrepreneurs in the APEC economies and recommends …

the pandemic on businesses were not gendered, although the lived experiences of women entrepreneurs reveal areas where … ecosystem on how women’s entrepreneurship is defined and investigates how this affects the monitoring and evaluation of policy …

Men and women play important and complementary roles in the economy. However, the activities that they perform are … often valued differently, if at all. In this study, we provide new estimates of the value of men and women's work in the … unpaid home production is taken into account, the contribution of women is closer to parity relative to those by men, as …

for politicians. We exploit variation in sex ratios - the number of men divided by the number of women in a region … - across Germany induced by WWII. In the 1990 elections, women were more likely to run for office in constituencies that had … election. These results suggest that while women were more likely to run for a seat in parliament in constituencies with lower …

The global megatrend of the rise of digital platforms has increased labor opportunities for both men and women … Manila and key urban cities. Policy recommendations are developed with the goal of levelling the playing field for women …

history, we find that the opening of schools providing secondary education for women increased their representation among the … higher human capital, connecting women to form a social movement. We find no evidence of other city-specific indicators of … increasing representation of women among the human capital elite, as the opening of gender-specific schools has no impact on the …