This policy brief argues that digitalization, innovation, and broader participation in education by non-conventional players can contribute to prompting a breakthrough for the needed transformation (behavioral and policy changes) for educating girls and the socially marginalized. Realizing the full potential of individuals […]
The challenges in terms of global care chains, gender dynamics, and intersecting inequalities highlight the need to analyze the socio-spatial dimensions of care. This need is heightened by ageing populations that struggle to receive support and the flux of migrants, to which […]
Gender must be mainstreamed in all COVID-19 relief and recovery policies. Stakeholders must proactively ensure marketing and distribution of programs are tailored to reach women, as well as men. This includes marginalized learners and professionals, such as people with disabilities and the […]
Policy Recommendations: Provide enterprise education, including experiential and entrepreneurialapproaches to learning, to equip students with entrepreneurial mindsets and other personal competencies that contribute to society. Introduce gender-sensitive educational policies and programs to bolster women’s participation in technology and innovation and to create inclusive and diverse […]
Women’s equality and empowerment is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, which give them a fundamental right to have control over their lives to put forth impact and influence on society. Diverse and inclusive human capital is considered as a key […]
For many years, gender equality scholars and experts have been advocating for the mainstreaming of gender in domestic and international policymaking. This year, Argentina’s G20 presidency has made it mandatory to mainstream gender across the entire 2018 agenda, including its three top […]
The G20 has become a more significant player in governing global gender equality over the last five years. However, the expanding size and scope of its public deliberation on the issue has not yet translated into a significant number of action-oriented commitments […]
Achieving enhanced formal FLFP will require clear policy prioritization and strong political will. While each G20 nation will undertake policy interventions in ways that would best suit their socio-economic realities, to encourage this transition the political will to prioritize bringing more women […]
Proposal 1 Agree a definition and framework of women’s economic empowerment (WEE) to facilitate the setting of clear goals and targets for labor, farming and entrepreneurship, digital and financial equity A number of frameworks for and definitions of WEE have been devised, including […]
A disruptive narrative about the acceleration of the impact of technology on the future of work has caught the attention of the global community of policy makers. However, the conversation is often gender-blind. Analysis of the topic is too often oblivious to […]
Increasing women’s and women led businesses’ access to and use of multiple financial services The goal is to ensure that women and women-led businesses have access to and are able to use multiple financial services as tools to develop their financial autonomy, […]
When women earn their own income, their control over that income can increase, and they are more likely to re-invest in their household—children’s education and health, better food and nutrition for the family, increasing livelihood assets for the family. This can contribute […]
A New Approach to Mainstreaming Recognizing that “gender gaps are often the result of multiple and mutually reinforcing constraints …. require coordinated multi-sectoral interventions, or sequential interventions,” the World Bank proposed four principles including: comprehensive gender diagnostics, targeting determinants of gender equity; […]
Case Studies Many barriers to women’s digital inclusion are traditional gender restrictions, which manifest themselves in laws or socio-cultural norms, poverty, lower educational opportunities for girls and restricted access to labour markets, as well as persistent gender stereotypes. Accordingly, policies aimed at […]
Empowering women is not only correct from a rights’ perspective, but it is also smart economics: evidence suggests that reducing gender gaps in the labour market can contribute to economic growth and sustainable and inclusive development. In this sense, reducing gender gaps […]
Policy is thus required to pave the way for a successful adoption of the new digital age opportunities by women. Given the potential for gender gap persistence to undermine any future gains to women from digitalization, the G20 leaders need to take […]
Achieving an affordable, inclusive internet for all Policies over the past decade have focused on building out the essential infrastructure for internet access. This work is not done, and must continue, but significant successes have been achieved. Today, 70% of the world’s […]