Drawing on key findings and frameworks from the World Development Reports on Jobs (2013) and Gender Equality and Development (2012), this report examines gender constraints in the world of work using a

This framework by CARE International integrates gender equality principles into women’s economic empowerment initiatives. Key elements are: enhancing women’s skills, confidence, and decision-making (agency), transforming power dynamics and social norms within

This insightful UN Women report examines systemic barriers to women’s full participation in economies, including unequal access to work, unpaid care responsibilities, and gender wage gaps. It provides practical, evidence-based solutions

This comprehensive World Bank report makes the case for gender equality as a core development objective and driver of economic growth and poverty reduction. The report, which stresses that gender equality

Nobel Prize winner Claudia Goldin takes a historic view of gender roles to discern features of the “last chapter” for achieving gender equality in labor markets. This seminal research provides a comprehensive

Esther Duflo explores the bi-directional relationship between economic development and women’s empowerment in this influential paper. She reviews the evidence on both sides of the empowerment-development dichotomy, arguing that while development

This foundational paper by Naila Kabeer was one of the first to conceptualize and measure women’s empowerment rigorously, defining it as a process by which those previously denied the ability to

In this groundbreaking work, Amartya Sen critiques economic theories of harmonious household behavior, illustrating how gender bias and power asymmetries shape the intrahousehold allocation of resources like food, healthcare, and

Esther Duflo and Raghabendra Chattopadhyay’s seminal work highlights the importance of women’s leadership on welfare outcomes by examining the effects of gender quotas in India’s local governance, finding that female

Co-authored by Cecilia Rouse and Claudia Goldin, this study compares hiring data from orchestras that used "blind" auditions and screening to better understand sex-bias in hiring decision. The researchers found that