Forty-five years ago, the first Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social … Conference of the International Women’s Year (Mexico City, 1975). This meeting culminated in the adoption by the governments of … the region of the Regional Plan of Action for the Integration of Women into Latin American Economic and Social Development …

Middle East and North Africa region by examining the effects of aid to Women's Equality Organizations and Institutions on … women's political empowerment, measured by the proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments. We use panel data … planning and reproductive health. The econometric results suggest that official development assistance ... to women' equality …

We conduct a synthetic review of the literature examining relationships between domains of women’s empowerment and food … system outcomes. Many studies report significant positive associations between women’s empowerment and intrahousehold gender … empowerment indicators and women’s dietary diversity scores. The findings suggest women’s empowerment contributes to improved …