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Counting Women’s Work in the Philippines

The value of women’s unpaid work in the Philippines is worth trillions of pesos, according to a senior research

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Unlocking the Potential of Frontier Finance

Unlocking the Potential of Frontier Finance assesses key features of frontier finance impact investments and finds

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Examining the Women’s Low Labor Market

While the Philippines has achieved several milestones advancing gender equality in the country, there are some

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Employees’ perceptions of a family-

The People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) and Investing in Women collaborated on a research

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Blended finance:

Emerging markets:

Family-responsive workplace policy:

Female labour force participation:

Flexibility entrepreneur:

Flexible work arrangements:

Flexible workplace policies:

Fontier finance investments: For the purpose of this report, frontier finance investments constitute a subset of impact investments (emerging and frontier markets align, generally, to the United Nations’ classification of least developed and developing countries). These investments seek to improve the lives of low-to lower-middle income people in emerging and frontier markets.

Frontier finance investments:

Gender balance:

Gender diversity:

Gender equality:

Gender gap:

Gender inequality:

Gender lens:

Gender lens investing:

Gender neutral:

Gender norms:

Gender parity:

Gender pay gap:

Gender positive:

Gender roles:

Gender stereotypes:

Gender-based discrimination:

Gender-based violence:

Gender-biased:

Gender-inclusive policies:

Glass ceiling:

Impact Investing:

Impact investments: Impact investments are defined as investments that seek to create positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Impact investments seek financial returns ranging from competitive, risk-adjusted market-rate returns to capital preservation and can be made across asset classes and geographies.

Impact measurement and management (IMM):

Intimate partner violence:

Labour force participation:

Leaky pipeline:

Maternity leave:

Necessity entrepreneur: A necessity entrepreneur is an individual who cannot find quality employment or is unemployed and whose only viable employment option is to start a business. These businesses tend to be smaller than those started by opportunity entrepreneurs, which target a market opportunity.

Opportunity entrepreneur:

Parental leave:

Paterinity leave:

Paternity leave:

Senior management positions:

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs):

Social norms:

Sustainable developmement goal (SDG):

Unpaid care work:

Unpaid domestic work:

Violence against women:

Women in leadership:

Women's economic empowerment:

Women-led business:

Women-owned business:

Women-owned businesses: Defnition of women-owned businesses This research defned “women-owned businesses” as those businesses where women have an ownership stake equal to or greater than 51%. This is the defnition that DGGF uses (and this is the current World Bank defnition).

Workplace Gender Equality:

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