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Supply-Side Gender-Disaggregated Data for Advancing Financia...
The gender gap in financial inclusion continues to be unacceptably high in most developing countries, highlighting the need to prioritize policies that promote gender equity in the financial sector mo...
How Data-Driven Approaches Are Advancing Efforts to End Gend...
An illuminating story about the power of data, this blog explains how the Office of the Chief Government Statistician Zanzibar has effected change by collecting and distributing comprehensive GBV data...
Data Must Fuel Gender Equality. Here’s How to Do It (2023)
From the directors of the gender groups at the World Bank and IFC, and the World Bank's development data group, this blog highlights the importance of gender data to inform operations, track progress,...
A Call to Improve the Quality and Transparency of Women’s Ec...
Gender indexes that allow comparisons across countries and time can be improved by making the raw data behind them available for download, and by publishing technical notes to explain the models – as ...
How to Improve Indicators on Women’s Economic Empowerment: G...
Intended for time-pressed survey practitioners, this World Bank Group guidance note focuses on targeted adjustments to existing data collection tools and processes to help scale-up the production and ...
How to Assess Gender Data Gaps in the Economic Domain (2022)
The World Bank’s Strengthening Gender Statistics Project works with national statistics offices in 12 partner countries, including Bangladesh, to improve the availability, quality, and use of gender d...
Missing SDG Gender Indicators (2023)
Out of the 231 indicators used to track progress in the Sustainable Development Goal agenda, 50 gender-related indicators cut across a wide range of goals. This paper looks at why countries are fallin...
Bangladesh Time-Use Survey (2023)
Bangladesh conducted its first-ever time-use survey in 2021. This statistical report offers important insights into how gender roles shape the division of labor between men and women, delving into tim...
Measuring Women and Men’s Work (2021)
Measurements of employment and other work are sensitive to survey design, especially for women. This joint report by the ILO and the World Bank offers findings from a pilot study conducted in Sri Lank...
Leveraging Gender Data to Accelerate Gender Equality (2023)
A new research note from the World Bank Group gives a detailed look at the importance of data for achieving gender equality. Providing descriptions of gender data initiatives and recommendations for o...