tasks more equally between men and women by transforming gender stereotypes. … Statistics Directorate. The initiative aims to identify policy and programme solutions to promote women’s economic empowerment by … recognising, reducing and redistributing women’s unpaid care work. This paper presents new analysis of time use data and unpaid …

We examine the gender legacy of past institutions by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across …

transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic situation of women has improved, significant gender disparities remain …This paper examines gender inequality and female empowerment in rural Viet Nam. Using an extensive panel dataset on 2 …,181 households, we examine how the welfare of women living in rural areas has evolved during a period of dramatic rural …

The Global Gender Gap report 2020 points to the fact that gender gaps in the economic sphere have widened over the … years, both globally and in India. There is a need to conceptualise and analyse progress on gender and economic equality and … empowerment of women (GEEEW) in the Indian context, and examine if commitments in this regard under the Convention on Elimination …

whether development aid given for gender equality objectives leads to progress in women’s legal rights in recipient countries … gendered aid on changes in women’s rights. Our findings show that gender-focused aid has a positive impact on the de …We study the role of development cooperation in improving women’s economic rights in non-OECD countries and assess …

This study investigates the determinants of women empowerment among refugee women living in Nairobi, Kenya. First, the … women empowerment among refugees living in Nairobi was six percent. In addition, the study finds evidence that age; the … gender of the household head; the education level of the refugee woman; employment status; and the education of the household …

Women do not receive the same property rights protections as men in many countries. Given the importance of sound … first test of the importance of women’s property rights for economic growth in a large panel of countries. Women’s property … rights are significantly associated with growth even controlling for the effect of men’s rights. The association for women is …

The paper examines the impact of a rural roads construction program in India on women's outcomes. While spatial … integration can provide women with increased education and employment opportunities, the extent of benefits might be limited by … underlying gender norms. We identify the impact of the policy by exploiting the program rule that assigned roads based on the …