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Understanding Women Micro-entrepreneurs’ Use of Mobile Phone...
This report focuses on women’s use of mobile phones for business and the mobile gender gaps experienced by women micro-entrepreneurs. Even when women micro-entrepreneurs own a mobile phone, they may n...
GEM 2022/23 Women’s Entrepreneurship Report: Challenging Bia...
This 2022/2023 GEM Women’s Entrepreneurship Report presents a trend analysis of women’s entrepreneurship across 49 countries, 5 global regions and 3 national income levels. Women are over-represented ...
Women and Equitable Growth in a Resource-Constrained World U...
This paper addresses the need to reform the international development finance architecture in ways that expand access to affordable credit for women entrepreneurs. It lays out an evidence-based pathwa...
Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurshi...
In this paper, the authors develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women in India. They find substantial barriers to LFP, and high...
Stepping Up Women’s STEM Careers in Infrastructure: An Overv...
One of three volumes focusing on how to advance Women’s STEM careers, this report provides an overview of ways to level the pathway for women entering into and progressing STEM employment within the i...
Stepping Up Women’s STEM Careers in Infrastructure: Case Stu...
One of three volumes focusing on how to advance Women’s STEM careers, this report distills findings from five case studies to provide insights into how to support women’s STEM careers in infrastructur...
Infrastructure for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Wo...
The report examines the many barriers women and girls face when trying to access basic services and economic opportunities. Considering the long life of infrastructure, it highlights the dangers and m...
Rethinking Gender Responsive Procurement: Enabling an Ecosys...
This issue brief, prepared by UN Women and the ILO, discusses ways to broaden the scope of gender-responsive procurement. Starting from the “buy from women-owned” approach, which seeks to offer equal ...
Gender and Revenue Administration: Principles and Practices ...
This technical note discusses the interactions between revenue administrations and gender equality and explores how revenue administrations can administer gender-sensitive tax laws effectively and app...
Financing for Gender Equality in Latin America and the Carib...
This note provides an overview of the gender-informed PFM instruments used in Latin American and Caribbean countries. Governments have used public financial management (PFM) institutions and processes...
Power with Full Force: Getting to Gender Equality in the Hyd...
Based on 65 corporate and 900 individual survey responses, this report discusses the challenges women face in the hydropower sector, such as gender biases, a shortage of women with STEM qualifications...
Accelerating the Productive Use of Electricity: Enabling Ene...
This report highlights the importance of actively promoting productive uses to MSMEs, including small farmers, as a way of accelerating development after communities gain access to electricity. An eco...