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 …

between the two conflicting approaches, to enhance women's access to international trade and their contribution to the global …

importance of collecting data on the increasing participation of women in the economy as entrepreneurs and managers. Why is … anticipate that women's gains in education and the labor market should put them in a good position to benefit from business … opportunities opened by free trade. Second, women's organizations in Canada and the United States have collected data about the …