The data book illustrates the progress towards gender equality for 217 economies around the world. It provides comparable statistics for women and men for the years 2000 and 2017 across a range of indicators covering education, health, and related services, economic structure, participation and access to resources, public life and decision making, and agency.
This report seeks to redress the current paucity of information on growth-oriented women entrepreneurs in the Caribbean region by drawing on various data sources to estimate their numbers and sectoral focus.
This guide provides evidence-based operational principles for teams working on women’s entrepreneurship, including resources to build the business case for supporting women-owned businesses and start-ups; to develop a framework for support programs for women-owned businesses, and to share insights from case studies and results.
To gain new insight into how women’s employment and entrepreneurship choices are affected by legal gender discrimination, this study examines ten years of Women, Business and the Law data through an index structured around the economic decisions women make as they go through different stages of their working lives.
Promoting gender equality is an integral part of youth livelihoods programming. This toolkit is a guide to ensure that development activities have a positive impact on gender relations.
This working paper explores the multiple dimensions of women’s access to good quality jobs. It is the first in a series of notes on gender and jobs and will be followed by notes that delve deeper into more specific aspects of the issue. It includes a brief discussion of the gender gaps in women’s access to good quality jobs and the factors contributing to such gaps and suggests actions that governments can take to close them.
This brief provides key lessons learned from different programs working with adolescent girls in developing countries.Experience has shown that to serve adolescent girls—particularly the most vulnerable—programs should be designed to overcome gender-based constraints that prevent girls and young women from benefitting from programs in the same ways which boys do.
UN Women has developed Empowering Women Migrant Workers from South Asia: Toolkit for Gender-Responsive Employment and Recruitment. The Toolkit provides guidance on ensuring the protection and promotion of the rights of women migrant workers throughout the labour migration cycle.
This toolkit provides references and tools for practitioners working to prepare girls and young women for jobs usually reserved for men. It recognizes that what is traditional for women varies by culture and context and that many earn income through self-employment or entrepreneurship, rather than jobs in the formal sector.
The report explores the gender-related barriers faced by young women and young men, reviews the many approaches that programs take in Africa to confront these barriers, and tries to establish whether and how these approaches have been successful.
