Investing in Women and Girls for a Gender Dividend - PRB Blog

"Investing in Women and Girls for a Gender Dividend", by Kate Belohlav, Population Reference Bureau, cites work presented by CWW Project Director, Gretchen Donehower, at the panel on Women's Economic Empowerment and Sustainable Development, hosted by the Population Reference Bureau, the World Bank, and the Population and Poverty Research Initiative (PopPov) in March 2016.

CWW research at 2016 UN Commission on the Status of Women

CWW Project Director, Gretchen Donehower, was a speaker at an event titled "Women's Economic Empowerment and Sustainable Development: Exploring the Evidence, Intersections, and Outcomes", hosted by the World Bank, the Population Reference Bureau, and the Population and Poverty Research Network. The symposium was a side-event to the 60th meeting of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women and took place in New York in the United States on March 15, 2016.

Slides from Dr. Donehower’s presentation are available here.

Women's Economic Activity and Gender Dividends

Economic activity is heavily gender-determined, leading to large differences in labor income, based on different labor force participation but also, different wages. What “gender dividend” might we get in the future from closing some of the gaps?​

This was the theme of a presentation by Gretchen Donehower, Project Director for Counting Women’s Work, at the “Workshop on the Demographic Dividend”, International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) 2016, held in Nusa Dua, Indonesia, on 25th January 2016.

Gretchen, based at the University of California at Berkeley, discussed how a demographic dividend is impacted by long-term demographic change and changing gender roles are a key set of links in this chain. 

Click here to view the full slide deck.