Gender

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WORKING PAPERS
Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children
Amber Peterman et al.
April 01, 2020
Times of economic uncertainty, civil unrest and disaster are linked to a myriad of risk factors for increased violence against women and children (VAW/C). Pandemics are no exception. In fact, the regional or global nature and associated fear and uncertainty associated with pandemics provide an enabl...
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More from Our Database on School Closures: New Education Policies May Be Increasing Educational Inequality
Shelby Carvalho
and
Susannah Hares
March 30, 2020
With more than 1.5 billion students are out of school, COVID-19 school closures could exacerbate existing inequities. In this post we analyse what we know (so far) about some of the drivers of inequity—and measures taken to address them—in different countries, using our open-access database.
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A Gender Lens on COVID-19: Investing in Nurses and Other Frontline Health Workers to Improve Health Systems
Megan O'Donnell
and
Samantha Rick
March 25, 2020
Here we take a deeper dive into the promotion of a gender-equal global health workforce in which the occupations where women predominate, such as nursing and community health work, are valued, prioritized, and properly resourced.
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W-GDP One Year On: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
Megan O'Donnell
March 23, 2020
The Trump administration’s Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W-GDP) is just over a year old. Its anniversary presents an opportunity to take stock of progress to date and reflect on how W-GDP can be strengthened going forward.
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Playing the Long Game: How a Gender Lens Can Mitigate Harm Caused by Pandemics
Megan O'Donnell
March 18, 2020
Working towards structural changes that will take longer to come to fruition, especially those that relate to reducing global inequality, is the only way to radically decrease the extent of harm caused by moments of crisis, especially for vulnerable populations.
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Gender Gaps in Education: What the Past Tells Us About the Future
David Evans et al.
March 17, 2020
Politicians, donors, celebrities, and researchers alike have all made the case for investments in girls’ education. But despite the evidence and the advocacy, women still have less education than men in two-thirds of the world’s countries.
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Six Things You Should Know about Female Teachers
Alexis Le Nestour
and
Laura Moscoviz
March 06, 2020
Of the 80 million teachers worldwide, more than half are female. This International Women’s Day we offer six facts about the share, location, role, and prospects of the 45 million female teachers globally.