15 March 2019 | Publication
East Asia Forum Quarterly Vol.11 No.1: Investing in Women
Summary
The essays collected here suggest that solutions that might work require urgent but patient and comprehensive economic, institutional and social change based on evidence and research that supports it.
Contents
- Sharing burdens a remedy for falling birthrates
- Can ‘womenomics’ achieve better work–life balance?
- Investing in care key to boosting economic growth
- More than regulation needed to close the gap
- Finer data for a fairer ASEAN economy
- ASIAN REVIEW: Is cultural imposition India’s Future? Voters will decide
- ASIAN REVIEW: Will Asia’s digital integration be derailed?
- Employers can mobilise a gender-diverse workforce
- Women-owned businesses face unique barriers
- Countering sexual harassment in Indonesian schools
- Networking change from the grassroots up
- Driving gender reform in Vietnam’s labour code
- Digital solutions can raise women’s workforce roles
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