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Category: Gender

Worn out: COVID-19, Women and the Great Exhaustion

19 July 2022 Rae Cooper and Andrew Paterson

It’s been a tough two years for women. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, women were hit harder by job losses, leading many to call it a “she-cession”. But as the pandemic worse on we started to see wider impacts too.

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Women mean business – how we can help them succeed

08 March 2022 Helen Shymanski and David Halabisky

Recent research suggests that women-founded businesses perform better over time and deliver higher revenue – more than twice as much per dollar invested – than men-founded businesses. In addition, women-founded start-up teams create more jobs for women – they employ 2.5 times more women than all-male start-up teams.

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What if women ruled the world of water?

08 March 2022 Oriana Romano, Boleslawa M. Witmer and Melissa Kerim-Dikeni

Water is one of our most precious resources. How we manage it matters. Despite some progress, the role of women in water decision-making remains marginal. Making the water sector more gender-balanced, and involving more women in water decision-making could help make water management more effective, more equitable and more sustainable.

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Missing Entrepreneurs 2021

Gender gaps in entrepreneurship are costing economies dearly

29 November 2021 David Halabisky

There are long-standing gender gaps in entrepreneurship. Women in OECD countries are about two-thirds as likely as men to be working on a start-up or young business.

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