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difficult for women to be financially independent, to participate in economic developments and to acquire wealth. Sup­port for fe­male en­tre­pren­eurs The 2030 Agenda has set women's economicempowerment as subgoal [...] EconomicEmpowerment The world as a whole be­ne­fits from eco­nomic equal­ity However, in many parts of the world women are being fundamentally restricted and disadvantaged in participating economically [...] situ­ation: Dis­tri­bu­tion of un­paid care work Women Men Around 75 per cent of unpaid care and domestic work is performed by women. On average, women in paid employment in all regions of the world earn …

“Missing Women: Revisiting the Debate”, Feminist Economics, vol. 9, no. 2–3, 2003, pp. 263–299. Lopez-Claros, A. and S. Zahidi, Women’sEmpowerment: Measuring the Global Gender Gap, World Economic Forum, [...] for rapid acceleration to economic parity, focusing on increasing women’s participation in the workforce, closing the pay gap between men and women, and helping more women advance into leadership roles [...] participation of women in the region after Guatemala. Only 47% of Mexican women are in the labour market, corresponding to a ratio between women and men of 57%. In Guatemala, 43% of women are actively engaged …

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care work on women. Due to the lockdown and the economic crisis, many women lost their jobs. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic worsened the predictions for closing the gender gap in economic participation [...] World Economic Forum estimates that this will not be achieved for about 268 years - eleven years later than originally predicted. Im­pact of COVID-19 on wo­men's eco­nomic par­ti­cip­a­tion: Women are more [...] The eco­nomic con­sequences of COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic affects women and girls in all their diversity particularly hard. They tend to bear higher economic costs than men. School closures and cases …

the project, which supports the self-reliance and economicempowerment of women, are the creation and maintenance of community nutrition gardens by women self-help groups. On the one hand, these gardens [...] the economicempowerment of women is strengthened since they receive wages from a rural governmental scheme (MGNREGA). With the Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) approach about 144,000 women of [...] project is to improve the nutritional situation of women of reproductive age, pregnant women, nursing mothers and infants in Madhya Pradesh. With women as the target group of the project, gender perspectives …

hardest. Women and girls are particularly exposed to climate-related disaster risk—they are likely to suffer higher rates of mortality, morbidity and economic damage to their livelihoods. Women bring unique [...] 12 ÒÊ Women and children are 14 times more likely than men to die during a disaster. ÒÊ There is a direct relationship between women’s risk of being killed during disasters and their socio-economic status [...] initiatives that target climate- related disasters, should leverage gender equality and women’sempowerment. Investing in women is an effective means for advancing sustainable development and fighting climate …

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Introduction Women’seconomicempowerment is a cornerstone of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The 2016 Report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’sEconomic Empowerment [...] of education of women relative to men, labor force participation rates of women relative to men, proportion of women top managers, proportion of women in parliament, percentage of women that borrowed from [...] evidence that women are lagging behind men in terms of the number of female business owners, the size of women-owned businesses, and their access to economic resources. Specifically, women-owned enterprises …

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consistently available to all women. Successful financial inclusion of women positively impacts on the economic performance of society as a whole. More on "Eco­nomicem­power­ment" Sup­port for fe­male en­ [...] Only 59 per cent of all women have a bank account. x Women currently have less access than men to formal financial services such as bank accounts, loans, insurance, etc. When women are denied access to formal [...] bil­lion wo­men cur­rently have no ac­cess to the formal fin­an­cial mar­ket In many countries, women face legal, social and multiple discrimination which negatively impacts on their socio-economic participation …

Account Formal Savings Informal Savings only Formal Credit Informal Credit only Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women (1) Married woman work 0.084 0.104* 0.074 0.107* -0.003 0.005 0.051*** 0.051*** [...] finance for women and its potential as a tool for initiating a “virtuous spiral of social, economic, and political empowerment” (Cheston and Kuhn 2002). In addition, barriers that constrain women’s access to [...] found in countries where married women can choose where to live (row 3) and where women are not required by law to obey their husbands (row 4)—both measures of women’seconomic independence. Equal 23 inheritance …

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