Symposium on valuing time use in Colombia

B. Piedad Urdinola and Jorge Tovar, co-directors of the National Time Transfer Accounts/Counting Women's Work research for Colombia, discussed results from the Colombian research. They were joined by other CWW personnel and other regional experts. The seminar took place from 8am to 1pm on June 1, 2016, at Auditorio Juan Herkrath Muller-Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogotá.

 The agenda can be downloaded here.

The video recording of the event can be viewed here.

Speakers for the event were:

• Gretchen Donehower, U.C. Berkeley (presentation)

• Edgar Marcillo, Departamento Nacional de Planeación-DNP (presentation)

• Pamela Jiménez Fontana, Centro Centroamericano de Población/Programa Estado de la Nación (presentation)

• B. Piedad Urdinola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogotá (presentation)

• Estela Rivero, Investigación en Salud y Demografía-INSAD (presentation)

• Néstor González, Departamento Nacional de Planeación-DNP

• Iván Piraquive, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística-DANE (presentation)

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The event flyers can be downloaded here (detailed) or here (overview).

Google Hangout: What do we learn by Counting Women's Work?

The Counting Women's Work project hosted a Google Hangout titled "What do we learn by Counting Women's Work?" on Thursday, April 21, 2016.

A recording of the Hangout is available on our YouTube Channel HERE

Moderator:

GRETCHEN DONEHOWER, University of California at Berkeley, Project Director, Counting Women’s Work 

Speakers include:

ELIANA RUBIANO MATULEVICH, World Bank, Gender Cross-Cutting Solutions Area

NANCY FOLBRE, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst  

PAMELA JIMÉNEZ-FONTANA, University of Costa Rica, Central American Population Center  

MORNÉ OOSTHUIZEN, University of Cape Town, Deputy Director, Development Policy Research Unit 

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The event flyers can be downloaded here (detailed) or here (overview).

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.

Public Policy Focus on Women's Unpaid Care Work in Costa Rica

Pamela Jiménez-Fontana, CWW's Costa Rica team leader, and Piedad Urdinola, Colombia CWW team leader, participated in a seminar entitled "Knowledge Management for Public Policy Based on Evidence: Giving Visibility to the Unremunerated Work of Women", hosted by the Central American Population Center (Centro Centroamericano de Población), the National Women's Institute (Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres) and the State of the Nation Programme (Programa Estado de la Nación). The event took place in San José, Costa Rica, on March 10, 2016.

Costa Rica CWW Research Highlighted

The University of Costa Rica has issued a press release on the Counting Women's Work research on Costa Rica. This research is led by Pamela Jiménez-Fontana. The press release (in Spanish) can be found 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.