Gender-responsive budgeting is a strategy that creates budgets that work for everyone. Failing to account for women's needs can lead to unintended adverse outcomes, including an annual burden of approximately $10.8 trillion in unpaid care and domestic work for women aged 15 and above. This article offers key recommendations on how to design and implement effective and equitable gender-responsive budgets.Read More
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Violence Across Societies: What Does Data Show About Peace and Security From a Gender Perspective?
While the world has reduced its homicide rate over the last 10 years, there remains major challenges to overcome. Data disaggregation shows that compared with females, the global male homicide rate is more than four times the rate for women. This blog emphasizes the critical need to look at peace and security from a gender perspective.Read More
Access to Menstrual Products for Girls: A Strategy for Achieving Development Goals
Millions of girls around the world are forced to miss school during their menstrual cycles due to inadequate access to running water, restroom facilities, and menstrual products. Consequently, this places these girls at a heightened risk of dropping out of school. This blog brings attention to the imperative need for broader access to menstrual products for girls and women and how it can be used as a development strategy.Read More
3 Conditions that Highlight the Women’s Health Gap
There’s a persistent gender health gap, with women being underdiagnosed for certain conditions, compared to men. This article written by World Economic Forum for VaccinesWork highlight three conditions that exemplify this gender health gap. Read More
Unlocking Data to Reduce Health Inequities Among Women
A new framework for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating data is needed to move the needle on closing the gender health gap. This blog argues that health insurers are uniquely positioned to not only educate and empower women to seek proper medical care through promotional campaigns and product offerings, but they can also harness data to inform best practices across the entire healthcare industry. Read More
Building a Care Economy: Four Leaders on Why Investing Today Will Create a Virtuous Cycle of Prosperity
Inadequate care systems are one of the biggest roadblocks to improving gender gaps in labor markets across the world, and better functioning care systems that recognize, reduce, and redistribute unpaid care work are critical to closing gender gaps. In this article, members of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council for the Future of the Care Economy share their vision for how investment in the care economy can support more gender inclusive economies and societies. Read More
