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On the occasion of the World Trade Organization's Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires in December 2017, the IGC Trade Impact Group was joined by 120 WTO members and observers to issue the historic Joint Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment, the first international declaration to explicitly link women's economic empowerment ...
Of the 271 million international migrants today, 130 million – or nearly half – are women. The share of women migrants increased from 46.7% in 1960 to 48.4% in 2010, [17] but has declined slightly over the past two decades, from 49.1% in 2000 to 47.9% in 2019. [18]
In April 2023, WIPO Director General Daren Tang announced the organization's commitment to closing the gender gap and empowering women and girls around the world by encouraging them to utilize their intellectual property rights to support economic growth: "Our data shows that women are using the global intellectual property system less than men ...
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the workforce in many ways, especially for women. While women have made great strides in closing the gender pay gap over the last several decades, the pandemic ...
Sian Griffiths, Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World (Women's Studies) Linda Hantrais, Managing Professional and Family Life: A Comparative Study of British and French Women; Deborah J. Swiss and Judith P. Walker, Women and the Work/Family Dilemma: How Today's Professional Women Are Finding Solutions
Women in development is an approach of development projects that emerged in the 1960s, calling for treatment of women's issues in development projects. It is the integration of women into the global economies by improving their status and assisting in total development.
Women's education is one of the major explanatory variables behind the rates of social and economic development, [1] and has been shown to have a positive correlation with both. [2] [3] According to notable economist Lawrence Summers, "investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world."
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