Investing in Women holds a thought-leadership responsibility to contribute to advance knowledge building to strengthen the business case of women’s economic empowerment and gender equality.
Investing in Women holds a thought-leadership responsibility to contribute to advance knowledge building to strengthen the business case of women’s economic empowerment and gender equality.
This handbook seeks to provide business owners with an understanding and awareness of the role and positive impact of practising workplace gender equality. ...
This report aims to improve the understanding of the impacts of trade and trade policy on gender equality, and to provide policy makers ...
This report provides an overview of current advances towards, and challenges to, gender equality in the culture and creative sectors at the national, ...
This report examines women’s representation in COVID-19 newsgathering and news coverage in India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the U.K. and the ...
This case study provides an overview of how the PNB strengthened its policy by taking immediate action on sexual harassment and provide a ...
The Global Wage Report 2020-21, the flagship report of the International Labour Organization (ILO), examines the evolution of real wages around the world, ...
In response to how the pandemic has widened gender gaps around the world, companies are adopting practices that support gender equality and women’...
This flagship regional publication, jointly produced by the ASEAN and UN Women, calls for greater investment and prioritisation of data for tracking progress ...
This brief from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) gives an overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic affects women’s jobs and incomes, education, ...
These fact sheets present a snapshot of the findings on the social norms, attitudes and practices of urban millennials in Vietnam, based on ...
These fact sheets present a snapshot of the findings on the social norms, attitudes and practices of urban millennials in Vietnam, based on ...
These fact sheets present a snapshot of the findings on the social norms, attitudes and practices of urban millennials in Indonesia, based on ...
This brief indicates four policy priorities for a gender-responsive recovery: prevent women from losing their jobs; avoid premature fiscal consolidation; invest in care; ...
The United Nations Population Fund released this compendium on social norms change to achieve gender equality, which provides a framework for programmatic approaches ...
The Gender Equality Scorecard Manual is the collective effort built upon SEAF’s work on the GES, a tool SEAF developed to assess ...
This report summarises the findings of the research on men and masculinities in a globalising Vietnam carried out by the Institute for Social ...
CARE in Vietnam has undertaken a Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) of the impacts of COVID-19. The study was designed to provide information about ...
This baseline study validates the findings of previous studies that the STEM industries, particularly the fields of engineering, architecture and related fields as ...
This interactive tool lets users calculate the approximate time they will spend on unpaid care work throughout their lifetime, based on the number ...
The COVID-19 and Gender Rapid Self-Assessment Tool has been created to enable companies to assess their COVID-19 response and ensure they support women ...
This book presents research on the apparent lag in the education of boys, the gender differences in educational mobility, the important roles of ...
This paper provides an overview of evidence on recent program interventions that address gender norms. Its purpose is to provide a summary of ...
This paper discusses the impacts of the pandemic on women migrant workers and provides recommendations on how to support governments, donors, civil society ...
This document enumerates gendered impacts of COVID-19 and includes minimum standards for integrating gender equality into preparedness and response planning process, and cluster ...
Prepared by the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group, this document outlines emerging gender impacts in Asia and the Pacific amidst COVID-19, as ...
This study seeks to present a localised analysis of advertisements for gendered portrayals. The researchers intended to document the portrayals of all genders ...
Produced by UN Women, this document provides considerations for businesses and companies, to help them create gender-balanced, socially beneficial marketing and promotional materials ...
Prepared by the National Bureau of Economic Research, this paper provides insights on how the economic downturn caused by COVID-18 can affect women ...
Policies and public health efforts are scrambling to catch up with the spread of COVID-19. Hand-washing, social distancing and self-isolation will all contribute ...
This is a practical guide for United Nations country teams and partners in developing operational plans to respond to COVID-19 at country level—...
Analysing the impact of COVID-19 on gender could be key in fighting the disease. Women are on the coronavirus frontlines as healthcare workers, ...
This briefing note contains the International Labour Organization’s preliminary assessment of the possible impacts of COVID-19 on the global workforce. It proposes ...
An initial assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the global world of work says the effects will be far-reaching, pushing millions of ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected not only the physical health, but also the well-being and economic resilience, of women. Incidents of domestic violence ...
To fully understand the primary and secondary effects of a health crisis on individuals and communities, it is vital to recognise how such ...
This policy brief explores how women and girls’ lives are changing in the face of COVID-19, and enumerates suggested priority measures to accompany ...
Women’s Safety NSW conducted a second survey of frontline workers and service providers to gather information on the evolving challenges arising from ...
SEAF’s Gender Equality Scorecard (GES) is a tool for assessing women’s economic empowerment and gender equality within investment opportunities and portfolio ...
Tackling Social Norms – A game changer for gender inequalities is based on research for the 2019 Human Development Report, which highlights how progress towards ...
This policy note outlines why housework is a social issue and why and how it should be recognised and valued. It is after ...
Male Champions of Change seeks to increase female representation in organisations and to develop conditions and cultures that empower women. This is the ...
This factsheet presents notable findings for Indonesia based on a Social Norms, Attitudes and Practices Survey (SNAPS) conducted by Investing in Women.
This factsheet presents notable findings for the Philippines based on a Social Norms, Attitudes and Practices Survey (SNAPS) conducted by Investing in Women.
This factsheet presents notable findings for Vietnam based on a Social Norms, Attitudes and Practices Survey (SNAPS) conducted by Investing in Women.
Work hours matter to gender equality, and this report attempts to explain why. It explores the role of time-related policies in reducing gender ...
Business leaders play an important role in closing gender gaps in the workplace. Creating a culture of equality can unlock human potential and ...
Over four million employees, which accounts for more than 40% of Australia’s total labour force, are covered in the latest WGEA scorecard. The ...
Ending violence is our business is a tool developed by the UN Women Regional Office for Asia Pacific to share practices and key ...
This paper looks into the role of women’s housework and discusses the role of housework on men’s market work in the ...
This report delivers new insights into the role of gender in brand strategy, creative response and media targeting, and includes analysis of consumer ...
This issue of EAFQ touches on key economic and social questions that affect gender equality in South East Asia and East Asia, delving ...
This report benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, education, health and political criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across ...
This report from the McKinsey Global Institute explores the challenge of gender inequality in Asia Pacific and considers what it will take to ...
This report analyses the gender earnings gap in Vietnam and explores why women choose to work in lower paid occupations.
This report provides an overview of the gender pay gap in Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand, drawing on a number of ...
The article provides an overview of McKinsey’s research in the last 10 years on women in the workplace. It presents a strong business ...
This report offers guidance on how to integrate gender-responsive approaches into APEC Fora, Strategic and Work Plans, Annual Reports and Projects. It complements ...
This report discusses some of the issues and policies relating to skills development and labour markets in the APEC region. It analyses how ...
This report presents current statistics on representation of women in key leadership positions in the Philippine government and industry. It reveals a dearth ...
The report benchmarks 144 countries on their progress towards gender parity and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions and income ...
This report analyses interviews with executives from over 25 prominent companies in Southeast Asia to understand their perspectives on diversity, the obstacles they have ...
This report presents a global overview of trends related to equal caregiving and provides a synthesis of global data sources on related topics ...
This report examines the global and regional labour market trends and gaps, including in labour force participation rates, unemployment rates, employment status as ...
This report provides an overview of the international standards on women and work, and explores to what extent they have been implemented in ...
This report provides an overview of the state of feminism and gender equality around the world based on survey results from across 24 countries.
This report provides a first-ever account of global attitudes and perceptions of women and men regarding women and work, based on the 2016 Gallup ...
This factsheet from the Philippine Statistics Authority focuses on the latest statistical updates on women and men in the country. The 2017 edition contains 84 ...
This report looks into the gender-specific effects of trade liberalisation on work participation and hours of work, as well as primary participation in ...
This report examines Vietnam’s economy through a gender lens, analysing the distribution of productive resources across different groups of women and men; ...
This report is the fourth in a series of statistical handbooks and presents the available and relevant gender statistics in the Philippines from 2000 ...
This report reviews the key issues, policy mechanisms and international evidence with respect to closing the gender pay gap. The core focus is ...
This report explores the link that exists between diversity and improved business performance, and the measures the progress made on structural changes and ...
This article examines this board-level gender diversity issue for the case of the firms traded in the Philippine Stock Exchange during the period 2003 ...
This report examines the extent to which men and women have adopted and embraced digital technologies, and the influence that has had on ...
This report addresses the question of why progresses has been so slow on gender equality in Vietnam, exploring the challenges and barriers that ...
This report provides the latest data on women’s position in labour markets, examines the factors behind these trends and explores the policy ...
This report presents findings from a review of pension policies and their gender dimensions in eight countries of the East Asia region where ...
This report explores attitudes to work and family roles among senior university students in 2004; the year when people were preparing to elect a ...
This report brings together the most recent statistics, trends and information on the situation of women in business and management in order to ...
This report looks into the complex and varied causes behind the gap in economic empowerment between males and females across Asia and the ...
This report aims to provide a reliable estimate of the economic costs of domestic violence in Vietnam, including potential opportunity and productivity loss ...
This report provides a detailed review of the issues, theory and evidences around the pay gap between mothers and non-mothers, and between mothers ...
This report brings together available data and statistics to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date and global picture of women in the business world and ...
This report ranks 108 countries according to the level of discrimination against women and girls in social institutions and gives examples of the correlations ...
This report explores how Indonesia’s economic growth and rapid urbanisation in recent years is contributing to the gender income gap. The study ...
This report documents the nature and extent of gender inequalities in the Filipino labour market. The report also shares promising initiatives that have ...
This study explores the extent of change and regional differences in gender roles in the Vietnamese family based on innovative surveys in northern ...
This article provides a detailed analysis of “Vietnamese feminism,” and explores the concept of a positive collective identity of Vietnamese women – something with ...
This report discusses the connection between cultural expectations around gender roles and the degree of gender diversity in the workplace in Indonesia and ...
This report considers the relationship between labour legislation and women’s economic empowerment, and examines that current status of labour laws across the ...
This report examines the impact of gender diversity on corporate performance. It uses a global dataset of firms to analyse this correlation.
The gender gap in employment: What’s holding women back? Around the world, finding a job is much tougher for women than it ...
This report provides a framework for monitoring Investing in Women’s contribution to the goal of accelerating women’s economic empowerment in Southeast ...
This country context paper provides an overview of women’s contribution to Myanmar’s economy as farmers, entrepreneurs and wage workers, and identifies ...
This country context paper provides an overview of women’s contribution to the Vietnamese economy as farmers, entrepreneurs and wage workers, and identifies ...
This country context paper provides an overview of Indonesian women’s participation in the labour market and as entrepreneurs, and identifies key barriers ...
This country context paper provides an overview of women’s participation in the labour market and as entrepreneurs in the Philippines, and identifies ...
This report explores the degree to which individual directors are sitting on multiple corporate boards in Vietnam, and the impact this has on ...
This report analyses aid flows to Southeast Asia, and the degree to which overseas development funding is spent on projects promoting women’s ...
This report analyses Vietnam’s adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women in relation to women’...
This report analyses the Philippines’ adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women in relation to women’...
This report analyses Myanmar’s adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women in relation to women’...
This report analyses Indonesia’s adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women in relation to women’...
This report provides an overview of the international standards on women and work, and explores to what extent they have been implemented in ...
This report explores the degree to which individual directors are sitting on multiple corporate boards in the Philippines, and the impact this has ...
This report explores the degree to which individual directors are sitting on multiple corporate boards in Indonesia, and the impact this has on ...
This report provides an overview of the international standards on women and work, and explores to what extent they have been implemented in ...
This report provides an overview of the international standards on women and work, and explores to what extent they have been implemented in ...
This report provides an overview of the international standards on women and work, and explores to what extent they have been implemented in ...
This report highlights key research findings on gender diversity in corporate governance, and explores opportunities to improve women’s participation on boards.
This report explores key concepts around gender equality and empowerment, emphasising the dual importance of gender equality policies and an enabling institutional environment.
This report provides an overview of the Indonesia Business Coalition for Women’s Empowerment, and explores its key characteristics, challenges and opportunities.
This report provides an overview of the Philippine Business Coalition for Women’s Empowerment, and explores its key characteristics, challenges and opportunities.
This report provides an overview of corporate governance principles and structures, and explores how corporate governance connectedness in Vietnam can influence women’s ...
This report provides an overview of corporate governance principles and structures, and explores how corporate governance connectedness in the Philippines can influence women’...
This report provides an overview of corporate governance principles and structures, and explores how corporate governance connectedness in Indonesia can influence women’s ...
