WTO has been focusing on women with the aim of building their capacity to trade and using trade as a tool for their … Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment which identified Aid for Trade as a key instrument to assist members in … "analysing, designing and implementing more gender-responsive trade policies". Three key facts on women's economic empowerment …

This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment … them have reported at least one trade policy targeting women's economic empowerment. Overall, in four years, almost half of … the WTO membership has implemented trade policies in support of women (at least one). Most (about 70%) of the WTO Members2 …

We outline the various channels through which women are part of the global trading economy. It focuses on women as … intensively by women than by men. The evidence shows that tariffs are higher in this sector, which means that women consumers are … manufacturing industries, such as apparel, can offer important prospects for women workers; these opportunities are often their …