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Gendered Laws and Women’s Financial Inclusion (2023)
This paper documents the relationship between legal gender equality and the use of financial services, using individual-level data from 148 developed and developing economies. The analysis, which comb...
When Will Global Gender Gaps Close? (2023)
This paper shows that, absent a significant step up in policy efforts, gender gaps may never close. Using Markov chains, a common approach in macroeconomics, it analyzes the dynamics of the cross-coun...
Lawful Progress: Unveiling the Laws That Reshape Women’s Wor...
This paper examines the impact of women’s legal rights on labor force participation decisions made by women and men through a granular analysis of 35 gendered laws. The findings identify nine key laws...
Gender-Inclusive Legislative Framework and Laws to Strengthe...
Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. The report provides a ...
Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectiv...
How did gender equality become a normative justification, a legal doctrine, and a social good? How did it advance through human rights treaties? And how do we move forward from here? Editor of the vol...
Gender Discrimination is Enshrined in Law. That Needs to Cha...
“So, what do we do?” is the perennial question asked when faced with discrimination and injustice. According to the author, Michelle Milford Morse, the response applicable to all development agencies ...
Gendered Laws, Informal Origins, and Subsequent Performance ...
Firms in the informal sector underperform those in the formal sector in value added per employee, stability of incomes, and vulnerability to external shocks. But does legal discrimination affect the c...
Tackling Legal Impediments to Women’s Economic Empowerment (...
Can legal reforms promote shifts in perceptions of women in the economy? Drawing on case studies of six countries (Iceland, Peru, Rwanda, The Philippines, Tunisia, and the United States), this paper c...
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...
Policy Lessons on Social Protection (2023)
A new brief from the Gender Innovation Lab Federation synthesizes findings from impact evaluations conducted by member labs designed to understand what works, and not, in supporting women through soci...
Climate Equity: Women as Agents of Climate Action
Produced jointly by the National Commission on the Status of Women and UNDP Pakistan, this report offers policy prescriptions for strengthening resilience and reducing the vulnerability of women who d...
Legal Gender Equality as a Catalyst for Convergence (2022)
Convergence refers to when poorer economies catch up to richer economies in income. This research looks at a global sample of laws over five decades and finds that gains from gender-equal laws “facili...