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Gender at Work: A Companion to the World Development Report ...
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 ...
Bringing Gender Equality Closer to Women’s Economic Empowerm...
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 (a...
Progress of the World’s Women: Transforming Economies, Reali...
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...
World Development Report: Gender Equality and Development (2...
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 equa...
A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter (2014)
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 compr...
Women’s Empowerment and Economic Development (2011)
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-developm...
Resources, Agency, and Achievements: Reflections on the Meas...
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 make ...
Gender and Cooperative Conflicts (1987)
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 resourc...
Women as Policymakers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Exp...
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, fin...
Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of “Blind” Auditions ...
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 researc...
The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries (2015...
This paper by Seema Jayachandran synthesizes insights from economics, anthropology, and sociology to examine how historical contexts have shaped gender roles and disparities. Highlighting critical are...
Progress On Household Drinking-Water, Sanitation and Hygiene...
In households without access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure, the burden falls mostly on women and girls. This report from the WHO and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program for Water...