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Discussion Recap: Towards a Gender Responsive Approach to Food &Nutrition Security in the Sahel and West Africa

CONTEXT Women play a pivotal role in a wide range of activities supporting food and nutrition security. They are the powerhouses of the Sahel and West African food economy. Two-thirds of all employed women work across the food system, accounting for half of the labour force. They dominate off-farm segments of food value chains including […]

COVID-19’s Impact on Gender Equality & the SDGs

Table of Contents: Introduction Implications for the SDGs with a focus on women and girls Implications for SDG 5 specifically Additional Resources from OECD on COVID-19 References Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic poses a severe threat to the achievement of gender-related SDGs and jeopardises some of the improvements observed since 2015 related to gender equality and […]

Can political gender equality produce educational gender equality? Evidence from developing regions.

By Maike Kusserow Contents: Introduction: educational and political gender inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa Evidence of the effects of female representation on women’s education Studies of political gender quotas in India and Africa Tentative evidence from Uganda Pitfalls of political gender quotas Conclusion References Introduction: educational and political gender inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa On average, women […]

#HowICare Campaign June 18-24 2020

The SIGI shows that women undertake 75% of the unpaid care and domestic work worldwide, and more must be done to recognise, redistribute and reduce this time burden on women. The #HowICare Campaign Promundo and Oxfam’s #HowICare Campaign is an opportunity for a wide variety of voices to demand, together, a transformation of the gendered dynamics […]

Speech: The economic cost of violence against women

Council of Women World Leaders high-level discussion at UN General Assembly Remarks by Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD New York, 21 September 2016 (As prepared for delivery)     Your Excellency Dalia Grybauskaite, Excellencies, Ministers, dear colleagues,   It is a great privilege to be here alongside world leaders who are working to end violence against […]

Human Development Index

About The Human Development Index (HDI) is the normalized measure of Life expectancy, Literacy, Education, standard of living, and GDP per capita. It is a commonly used to measure well-being within a country, especially child welfare. It is furthermore used to classify a country as developed, developing, or underdeveloped. The index was developed in 1990 […]

Gender Gap Grader

Table of Contents 1 Gender Gap Grader 2 References 3 See also 4 External links Gender Gap Grader The Gender Gap Grader is about measuring the gender gap across all professional fields. Mission statement Gender Gap Grader’s mission is to publish gender gap estimates at the finest grain level, using whatever reference database we can […]

Global Gender Gap

The Global Gender Gap measure was introduced by the to examine four critical areas of inequality between men and women:  Economic participation and opportunity – outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment Educational attainment – outcomes on access to basic and higher level education Political empowerment – outcomes on representation in decision-making […]

Enterprise Surveys

Table of Contents 1 About 2 Data 2.1 Access the Enterprise Surveys data: 2.2 Who is surveyed: 2.3 Gender-related research: 3 External links About An Enterprise Survey (ES) is a firm-level survey of a representative sample of an economy’s private sector. The surveys cover a broad range of business environment topics including access to finance, […]

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