Health and well-being

UN CSW65 Side event “Shifting Masculine Norms to Promote Women’s Economic Empowerment”

The OECD Development Centre is co-organising, with Austria, a Side-event on 22 March 2021 as part of the upcoming Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on Shifting Masculine Norms to Promote Women’s Economic Empowerment to: Make the case that restrictive masculinities hinder women’s economic empowerment while also harming the well-being of men and boys Underscore […]

Launch of Masculinities Report, Man Enough? Measuring Masculine Norms to Promote Women’s Empowerment

The OECD Development Centre is organising a virtual launch event on 12 March 2021 for the Masculinities Report, Man Enough? Measuring Masculine Norms to Promote Women’s Empowerment to: Present the findings of the report Shed light on the ways masculine norms can either hinder or promote women’s empowerment and gender equality Present the indicators that […]

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 […]

Climate Change and Tunisia’s Tozeur Oases: An opportunity to boost women’s leadership and economic activity

Article proposed and written by Euro – Mediterranean Women’s Foundation’s Secretary Publication date: 28 October 2019   [toc] Introduction  In its latest report ‘’The Global Climate in 2015–2019’’, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned that global warming is accelerating, so are the associated features such as the sea level rise, the shrinking sea ice, glacier […]

Gender in the Media: November 2018

The media review presents every month a selection of articles from different media sources on “gender and development” issues. the list of articles is regularly updated during the current month. November 2018 16-30 November Why Female-Friendly Toilets Need to Become a Hot News Topic (News Deeply) Making Gains for Women in STEM Fields Will Take More […]

Millennium Development Goals and Women’s Health

Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Women’s Rights and Women’s Health: “An ambitious but ambiguous agenda” (Serge RABIER) 3 Is women’s health issue able to make a difference in this agenda ? 4 See Also Introduction This note has been drawn from a conference on Women’s Health and the Objectives of Millenium, done at Sciences Po […]

Mental Health and Gender Stereotypes

A study by psychologists at Purdue and Northwestern Universities (USA) have uncovered the effect of gender stereotypes on public perceptions of the mentally ill. Stereotypes of men as violent and women as depressed and docile affect the responses of the public and institutions to those suffering from . Table of Contents 1 The Study 2 […]

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