Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) : literature review on the links between women's economic empowerment and growth; update for the Un High Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment

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2016-03

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IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA

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Based on the understanding that growth-empowerment linkages need to be supported by complementary policies, this review demonstrates that knowledge on what works in supporting Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) is growing, but still limited. The review highlights key trends in women's economic empowerment in terms of growth: growing women’s labour force participation, but with large regional differences and continued gender disparities; growing female entrepreneurship, again with large regional differences; slowly emerging knowledge of what holds women back in different contexts; the continued important role of the care economy; and growing knowledge on time use.

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This paper is one of a series undertaken by the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women GrOW to inform its engagement with and provide evidence to the UN High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10625/55636

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IDRC Research Results / Résultats de recherches du CRDI
2010-2019 / Années 2010-2019
Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) / Croissance de l’économie et débouchés économiques des femmes (CEDEF)