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Since the 1990s, gender mainstreaming has been a widely accepted strategy for promoting gender equality within governments, multilateral agencies, and development NGOs, although critics continue to question its premises and results. This paper reviews how the development agencies of Australia,...
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The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in more egalitarian and more developed countries. Some scholars have explained this paradox by the existence of deeply rooted or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that...
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Around the world, women face persistent barriers in seeking to enter the labor force, attain leadership positions, and … launch businesses. Gender inequality not only prevents women from achieving their full potential and gaining economic …, policymakers face the timely challenge of ensuring that women are not left behind in the development agenda. This working paper …
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Statistics Directorate. The initiative aims to identify policy and programme solutions to promote women’s economic empowerment by … recognising, reducing and redistributing women’s unpaid care work. This paper presents new analysis of time use data and unpaid … on Women’s Economic Empowerment. Specifically, the recommendations focus on how to recognise unpaid care work by …
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