Trade can dramatically improve women’s lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women … policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate, evidence-based policies to ensure that trade helps to enhance … connections among the economic roles that women play as workers, consumers, and decision makers. Building on new analyses and new …

reaffirms key gender principles and provides evidence that women face higher barriers than men when seeking to access … opportunities created by trade. It also shows that trade policy can help women overcome obstacles. In addition, the research …