findings of a multi-country research programme, 'Pathways of Women's Empowerment', to explore pathways of positive change in … women's lives, in diverse contexts, and to draw together some lessons for policy and practice. It begins with an account of … women's empowerment in development, tracing some key ideas that have shaped feminist engagement with empowerment in theory …

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 …

shifts in perceptions of women in the economy. Case studies of six countries (Iceland, Peru, Rwanda, The Philippines, Tunisia …It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from … reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal …

Greater legal equality between men and women is associated with a narrower gender gap in opportunities and outcomes …, fewer female workers in positions of vulnerable employment, and greater political representation for women. While legal … equality is on average associated with better outcomes for women, the experience of individual countries may differ …

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 …