Reading Time: 2 minutesThe first of our series on Missing Entrepreneurs, this article – written by Mary B Walsh, a woman entrepreneur – discusses women’s networks and how a support system can help a business grow.
Category: Women
Safe as houses? Bogotá helping women into better accommodation
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 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?
Women role models can help us break the gender gap in entrepreneurship
Reading Time: 3 minutesEntrepreneurship 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 ?
Reading Time: 4 minutesWomen 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?
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat 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
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt 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
Reading Time: 4 minutesPolicy 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
Reading Time: 4 minutesWomen 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.