In Bogota, 39% of women are in poverty compared to 34% of men. Women require housing solutions that support them in finding work, caring for others and escaping domestic violence and the internal armed conflict. How is the city helping?
Category: Women
Women role models can help us break the gender gap in entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is a powerful avenue for economic empowerment and inclusion. Yet women continue to face more obstacles than men in starting and growing a business. They relate to gender bias and social norms, a lack of entrepreneurial skills, and unequal access to funding,
The final frontier: why are women further from labour parity in some non-metropolitan areas ?
Women tend to be very active in the labour force in remote rural areas, but not in other non-metropolitan regions. Is it all about unpaid care work?
Where next for the pandemic’s pink-collar heroes?
What are so-called “Pink-collar” jobs? They include areas such as nursing, childcare, education, social work or personal and household services. Following the pandemic, this critical work needs to be rewarded with action – not just words – to broaden the appeal of pink-collar jobs for women and men. The current political momentum around the social economy can help – find out how.
what do you see? by Yasmin Morais
At the OECD Social Economy Summit Yasmin Morais makes the case for a future full of innovation, inspiration and inclusion. A poem for the ages…
Empowering women to power the green transition
Policy makers need to double down their efforts to close the gap and overcome an emerging gender divide in the green transition.
Out of service: how urban neighbourhoods fail to provide for women
Women often bear the brunt of family care responsibilities. Often this requires trip-chaining involving stops for groceries, prescriptions, cash at the bank, childcare, school and a myriad of other daily chores.
Worn out: COVID-19, Women and the Great Exhaustion
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.