This report examines the pervasive gender gaps in Pakistan, highlighting critical barriers to women's economic empowerment, including limited labor force participation, restricted access to financial services and productive assets such as access to a phone, and constrained mobility due to safety con
As of June 2024, SAR GIL has influenced over US$501 million in development spending in World Bank projects — amounting to US$99 for every US$1 invested in the Lab. This annual report highlights key results and success stories from July 2023 to June 2024 (FY24) and provides a trajectory of SAR GIL's
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 a lifecycle perspective. It examines the importance of women’s agency for boosting economic particip
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 (agency), transforming power dynamics and social norms within families and communities (relations), an
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 practical, evidence-based solutions and advocates for transformative policies to address inequaliti
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 equality is “smart economics,” identifies anumber of priority areas, including reducing gender gaps in e
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 comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the historical persistence of gender wage gaps and barriers in the
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-development dichotomy, arguing that while development can drive down inequalities between men and women, alo
Documents
Women's Economic Empowerment in Pakistan: An Evidence Guided Toolkit for More Inclusive Policies
This report examines the pervasive gender gaps in Pakistan, highlighting critical barriers to women's economic empowerment, including limited labor force participation, restricted access to financial services and productive assets such as access to a phone, and constrained mobility due to safety con
South Asia Gender Innovation Lab Annual Report FY24:
As of June 2024, SAR GIL has influenced over US$501 million in development spending in World Bank projects — amounting to US$99 for every US$1 invested in the Lab. This annual report highlights key results and success stories from July 2023 to June 2024 (FY24) and provides a trajectory of SAR GIL's
How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms in India
WEESA Brochure 2025
Gender at Work: A Companion to the World Development Report on Jobs (2014)
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 a lifecycle perspective. It examines the importance of women’s agency for boosting economic particip
Bringing Gender Equality Closer to Women’s Economic Empowerment (2019)
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 (agency), transforming power dynamics and social norms within families and communities (relations), an
Progress of the World’s Women: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights (2015)
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 practical, evidence-based solutions and advocates for transformative policies to address inequaliti
World Development Report: Gender Equality and Development (2012)
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 equality is “smart economics,” identifies anumber of priority areas, including reducing gender gaps in e
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 comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the historical persistence of gender wage gaps and barriers in the
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-development dichotomy, arguing that while development can drive down inequalities between men and women, alo