still likely to be substantial; (iii) addressing gender inequality benefits everyone, not just women. Thus, the entire …This paper identifies five key issues that are important for the continued efforts to tackle gender inequality: (i …) gender inequality needs to be distinguished from gender gaps. Not all gender gaps necessarily reflect gender inequality as …

activity but is not counted as part of GDP. Women disproportionately shoulder the burden of unpaid work: on average, women do …-wide productivity. In this paper, we examine recent trends in unpaid work around the world using aggregate and individual-level data …

This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal spending. Gender … budgeting is an approach to budgeting in which governments use fiscal policies and administration to address gender inequality … and women's advancement. There is little quantitative study of its impact. Indian states offer a relatively unique …

This paper examines trends in indicators of gender equality and women's development, using evidence derived from … Index and Gender Inequality Index to examine time trends. In recent decades, the world has moved closer to gender equality … individual indicators and gender equality indices. We extend both the United Nations Development Program's Gender Development …

We examine the impact of gender equality on electoral violence in Africa using micro-level data from the sixth round of … Afrobarometer surveys. The sample covers 30 countries. We find that gender equality is associated with lower electoral violence … results are robust to alternative ways to measure electoral violence and gender equality, as well as to alternative …

reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women’s economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal …It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries’ domestic laws have prevented women from … reform has been shown to be an effective method to catalyze greater participation of women in the economy—along with the …

gender gaps in financial access. Results suggest that anincrease in women entrepreneurs access to formal credit results in …Gender gaps in womens' economic opportunities-labor market and entrepreneurship-have remained high inIndia. Lack of … adequate collateral limits women entrepreneurs' ability to access formal finance, leaving them torely on informal sources …

Fintech, which delivers financial services digitally, promises to promote financial inclusion and close the gender gap … female employment and reduces gender inequality, the effect being more pronounced in firms without traditional financial …

financial inclusion-in general, and for women in particular. We find that structural country characteristics, such as resource … place, and more diffuse gender norms as possible explanatory factors …

women grow relatively faster in countries with ex-ante lower gender inequality. The test allows us to identify the causal …We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable … resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality …