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.
This toolkit aims to promote youth participation in public policy-making by providing guides and tools for ways to gain more influence and advocate for matters in the public arena, especially within issues of youth employment and skills development.
This report provides operational recommendations for the design and implementation of gender-inclusive digital jobs interventions for youth. It develops a new typology of digital jobs and draws insights from 19 case studies based on past and ongoing employment programs that connect youth with digital jobs opportunities.
The objective of this review is to identify good practices and lessons learned from ILO supported initiatives for improving employment outcomes for youth and women in the MENA region.
