sustainabilitly. This market and systems failure is discussed in this publication in terms of gender constraints, which are based on … the socially-constructed and historically developed roles of men and women. It also illuminates how female contributions … report is a contribution by the OECD to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and its cross-cutting work on gender. …

process has been the creation in 2010 of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known as UN Women …, which came into operation on January 1, 2011. UN Women incorporates four existing parts of the UN system dealing with women … and has been styled as the new UN “gender architecture.” In this article we consider the implications of this new …

poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of … requires alleviation of the poverty of their households. Trade sanctions or bans on child labour may have deleterious …

Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are prerequisites to the realisation of the 2030 Agenda for …

institutions. Data help analyse women's empowerment and understand gender gaps in key areas of development. Covering 178 countries …The Gender Institutions and Development Database (GID-DB) provides key data on gender-based discrimination in social … discriminate against women and girls. …

key data on gender-based discrimination in social institutions. The data help analyse women’s empowerment and understand …The Gender, Institutions and Development Database (GID-DB) is a database providing researchers and policy makers with … gender gaps in other key areas of development. Covering 180 countries and territories, the GID-DB contains comprehensive …