Men’s Role in Women’s Empowerment (Dorothea Arndt, Hand in Hand and Ravi Verma, ICRW) The United Nations estimates that at the current rate of progress, it will take 300 years to achieve complete gender equality. People have been working hard to achieve gender equality but the results have not brought about enough change. Is including […]
What development challenge faces the Caribbean that has yet to receive significant attention? It is the need to overcome obstacles to women and girls achieving more sustainable livelihoods. Foremost among these is the prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV). In 2019, the Caribbean had 5 of the top 20 recorded rape rates in the world. According […]
At just 14 years old, Christine Monska began her journey on the path to women’s empowerment by starting a girls’ group at her local middle school. Now, she is the executive director of Women’s Fund SouthCoast, a nonprofit research and grantmaking organization focused on uplifting women and girls in the community through social change. The […]
YOKOHAMA, Japan – Nissan has signed the United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEP), highlighting the company’s commitment to advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace. Established by UN Women and the UN Global Compact, the WEP provides guidance to companies on how to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, the […]
Now, Kaela Connors from the Harvard School of Public Health and her colleagues have investigated the relationship between women’s empowerment and farm-level crop diversity. They applied statistical analysis to cross-sectional data from studies carried out in Burkina Faso, India, Malawi and Tanzania. Women’s empowerment was measured in five domains that combine the Women’s Empowerment in […]
Technical approach Empowering Women in Latin America and the Caribbean Corus International’s group of organizations has been working in Latin America and the Caribbean since the 1960s. Corus’ organization, Lutheran World Relief, promotes gender equality throughout the region through livelihood strengthening activities, focusing on women’s economic and social empowerment and disaster risk reduction and response. […]
The report, produced by UN Women and UNDP, highlights the global challenges facing women and provides a roadmap for targeted interventions and policy reforms. The report introduces two new indicators: The Women’s Empowerment Index (WEI) measures women’s choices and freedoms. The Global Gender Equality Index (GGPI) assesses gender gaps in key dimensions of human development. […]
Technical approach Empowering Women in Asia Chorus International group organizations have been working in Asia since the 1940s under the leadership of Lutheran World Relief Society, which promotes gender equality throughout the region through its efforts to strengthen lives, focusing on women’s economic and social empowerment, and comprehensive disaster risk reduction and response. Throughout its […]
When Nicole Diaz del Valle joined the inaugural class of the College of Liberal Arts’ Women’s Empowerment Program last fall, she never expected it to become one of the most rewarding experiences of her college career. Nicole Diaz del Valle, sophomore political science major She experienced tangible personal growth as she discovered her voice and […]
Climate change is not gender specific As the UN Environment Programme and others have noted, women often bear disproportionate responsibility for collecting food, water and fuel for their families and are therefore most affected by climate change, exacerbating existing gender inequalities and posing unique threats to their livelihoods, health and security. “With the SHE project, […]
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