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UN Women’s new flagship report provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of progress, gaps and challenges in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from a gender perspective.

This manual on gender and economics is intended to provide basic- and intermediate-level training to development practitioners, including governments and policy and programme staff in international development agencies.

This series of briefs entitled The crisis’ impact on women’s rights, published by the , includes sub-regional perspectives on the impacts seen to date of the current crisis on women and women’s rights as well as those likely to come. These…

Presents findings of a study that investigated corporate-funded women’s economic empowerment programs and includes an integrated framework that the private sector can adopt to increase return on investment and enhance women's economic advancement.

This brief explains what we have learned about gender and taxation and looks at: why taxation is relevant for gender; where gender is relevant in taxation; bias in tax structures; amongst other themes.

This publication documents the origins, drivers and prevalence of harmful practices within and across developing and developed countries as well as in humanitarian settings. It also highlights their impact on girls’ and women’s health, well-being and…

Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Women's Studies Conference held October 29-31, 1998 at UW-Eau Claire - a feminist analysis of the ongoing debates
about welfare reform, and the related issue of women’s economic security.

Pourakhi, an organization established by women returnees in 2003, has collected more than 1,700 case studies on returnee women migrant workers in Nepal. This paper delves into 307 of these, as well as a consultation with 14 returnee migrant women…

Their mission is to improve the lives of underprivileged and poor children, especially young abandoned girls in India. They raise funds to help provide shelter, access to medical care, improved nutrition, and education for these children.

The Impact on Marriage: Program Assessment of Conditional Cash Transfers (IMPACCT) study by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) adds to the existing evidence on CCTs as a possible solution to delay the age of marriage and improve…