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women in saris working in field
WORKING PAPER: MEASURING WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
17 January 2022

By Sonalde Desai, Feinian Chen, Shilpa Reddy and Amy McLaughlin, University of Maryland

Four members of ActionAid Kenya standing together.
NATIONAL ADVOCACY COALITION ON WOMEN ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT IN KENYA
16 December 2021

By Jack Odiwa

Mother adjusting child's mask
RETHINKING THE GENDER DIVISION OF HOUSEHOLD LABOR DURING WUHAN’S CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN
7 December 2021

By Yue Qian, University of British Columbia

Cover of Defining Girlhood in India
SEXUAL MATURITY LAWS IN INDIA: GIRLS’ DISTINCT INTERESTS
17 November 2021

By Ashwini Tambe

woman smiling in pink top and blue apron
REPRODUCTIVE AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT: MEASUREMENT CHALLENGES AND DATA OBSTACLES
15 November 2021

By Sarah Gammage, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, and Shareen Joshi

 

Woman sells vegetables in a market
USING PRIMING EXPERIMENTS TO UNDERSTAND GENDER ATTITUDES: LESSONS FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND NEPAL
19 October 2021

By Katrina Kosec and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

 

Indian family of four with two daughters.
WHY WE SHOULD MEASURE SONLESS FAMILIES
18 October 2021

By Keera Allendorf

 

 

Indian woman in a green headscarf works with her hands.
INDIAN WOMEN'S DECLINING WORK PARTICIPATION: EVIDENCE FOR A STRUCTURAL EXPLANATION
23 September 2021

By Ashwini Deshpande

African woman with child and cooking instrument.
CHILDCARE PROVISION FOR WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT
23 September 2021

By Sojin Yu