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What do We Know About Interventions to Increase Women’s Econ...
The World Bank’s South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab (SAR GIL) is conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions with direct or indirect effects on measures of women’s economic ...
A Book Review of “Equality Within Our Lifetimes: How Laws an...
What will it take to close gender gaps worldwide? The authors of this essential analysis of women’s economic equality tackle this question. The book documents discrimination at work, sexual harassment...
Why Strengthening Women’s Land Rights in Conflict-affected C...
Land rights are complicated, especially in fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) affected situations. This blog highlights how women’s land rights can contribute to economic and social stability, fo...
Q&A: Women’s Assets, Shocks and Lasting Empowerment (2023)
In this interview, Agnes Quisumbing, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, talks about how shocks affect women’s assets and ways that development programming ca...
Integrating Gender in Land Projects: A Toolkit (2022)
This Toolkit offers a blueprint for building strategies and adopting good practices to address the legal, social, and structural barriers that hinder women from exercising their land rights. Written f...
Women's Legal Rights and Gender Gaps in Property Ownership i...
Drawing on data from Demographic and Health Surveys across 41 low-income countries, this paper finds that husbands are, on average, 2.7 times more likely than wives to own property solely and 1.4 time...
Housing Ownership Gender Differences in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2...
This paper provides surprising evidence on gender gaps in urban housing ownership. About 1,300 households in a low-income area of Dhaka were randomly selected, with male and female respondents (who we...
Asset Ownership and Female Empowerment: Evidence from a Natu...
Researchers use data collected in the aftermath of the massive 2010 floods to investigate the impact of this wealth shock on marital asset ownership and women’s empowerment. The estimated results show...
How Many and Which Women Own Land in India? Inter-gender and...
Despite advances in inheritance laws that have strengthened daughters’ rights, women are significantly more likely to inherit land as widows. This study sheds light on low female land ownership rates ...
Why Land and Property Rights Matter for Gender Equality (202...
This evidence and practice note, from a series of policy notes written as part of the analytical foundation for the World Bank Group’s new Gender Strategy (2024-2030), investigates women’s rights, acc...
Empowering Women to Engage in Commercial Agriculture (2022)
Findings from this RCT indicate that – with some encouragement – men are willing to transfer commercial farming contract rights to their wives. This study examines the impact of this on women’s positi...
Women’s Participation in Household Decisions and Gender Equa...
Women’s role in household decisions signals empowerment and can be instrumental in reducing inequality. The authors explore the relationship between changes in women’s participation in household decis...