Femmes et questions de genre
Old-age Poverty Has a Woman’s Face
From Commodity to Common Good: A Feminist Agenda to Tackle the World’s Water Crisis
We are the First Spark: The Quest of Women Peacebuilders in Iraq for a More Peaceful and Equal Society
Responsible Digital Payments: How to Prioritize Women for Financial Equality and Inclusive Economies
Social Norms, Gender and Development
Addressing Violence Against Women Through Social Protection
What Are the Main Barriers to Formalizing Paid Domestic Work? Lessons From Paraguay
Unrealized Potential: Female Entrepreneurship and the Digital Gender Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa
Women as Agents of Change for Greening Agriculture and Reducing Gender Inequality
Durable Transformation and Structural Changes for Gender Equality Through PFMS and Budgetary Circles
Eldercare Policies in East Asia and Europe
Adequate and dignified care provision for elderly populations is becoming an urgent policy issue not only in high-income countries but also in many middle- and low-income ones. This discussion paper documents and analyses varieties of eldercare policies and their readjustments in East Asia and Europe.
Falling Through The Net?
This paper analyzes the gender dimensions of social protection in three countries in the Pacific region – Papua New Guinea Tonga and Vanuatu – and explores how best to approach social protection so as to promote gender equality rather than risk reinscribing prevailing gender inequalities. It was produced for UN Women’s flagship report Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016 to be released as part of the UN Women discussion paper series.
Economic Growth and Social Reproduction
Towards Gender Equality Through Sanitation Access
This discussion paper reviews the extensive literature on sanitation to show that inadequate access to this basic service prevents the realization of a range of human rights and of gender equality. This paper was featured at an event on Emerging Issues in Gender and WASH held during the 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in 2016.
Investing in Free Universal Childcare in South Africa, Turkey and Uruguay
Paid Care Work Around the Globe
This paper uses harmonized collections of national labor force datasets to compare the size and shape of the paid care sector around the globe. The paper then explores the relationship between the size of the care sector and various measures of need for care finding very little evidence of relationship. Finally the paper explores wages and working conditions for paid care workers in a subset of countries for which data is available.