Sweden ranks among the best OECD countries in terms of gender equality. Women have a high employment rate, outperform … entrepreneurs. Hence, there is scope to make further progress on gender equality. The share of the parental leave reserved for each …

recognising, reducing and redistributing women’s unpaid care work. This paper presents new analysis of time use data and unpaid … care work from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Peru and South Africa as well as comparisons with OECD countries. It provides … Goals, drawing on learning from the Social Institutions and Gender Index and in-country research by the OECD Policy Dialogue …

Integrating gender dimensions into early warning systems is critical to support equitable crisis prevention and … and West Africa are gender-responsive and highlights existing gaps at national and regional levels. Progress has been made … by key partners and stakeholders towards strengthening the gender analysis of FNS EWS, however, these efforts have not …

, political and human rights have been accompanied by impressive reductions in gender gaps. However, discriminatory social … Gender Index (SIGI) aims to provide policy makers with the necessary tools and evidence to design more effective gender …-responsive policies. Putting social institutions at the core of policy responses may open new and sustainable vistas to promote gender …

balancing work and family obligations for women. However, entrepreneurs, both male and female, are relatively scarce in India … compared to peer countries, and tend to work in small units often outside the formal sector. While many of the barriers to … entrepreneurs face gender biases stemming from socio-economic factors or specific biases in laws such as inheritance laws. …

policy insights. This paper first describes key employment trends in India by gender. Then the potential determinants of …

and promote economic growth in India. The first part provides a brief review of gender issues in the country. The second … part presents a gender-based OLG model, based on Agénor (2015) and Agénor and Canuto (2015), that accounts for women’s time … allocation between market work, child rearing, human capital accumulation, and home production. Bargaining between spouses …

ratio of education by gender boosts economic growth. Our results are robust to the use of estimation procedures that do not …

The potential implications of gender differences in financial literacy are far-reaching. This paper describes the … findings of a review of the literature on gender differences in financial literacy with the aim to better understand their …, develop analytical work and case studies, and to identify areas that deserve further research, thus paving the way for future …