Women often face difficult decisions about how to balance work with childcare. Some mothers opt to stay out of the labor market due to their childcare responsibilities. For instance, a study...
A new study by IFC in Myanmar reveals that lack of childcare support and low awareness among businesses is a key barrier to increasing women’s participation in Myanmar’s labor force. Addressing this...
Globally, the lack of childcare services is associated with lower rates of female labor force participation. Having children between 0-5 years old significantly lowers women’s opportunities to join...
This session will discuss policy interventions to influence fathers’ involvement through behavioral approaches based on the idea that social norms and individual beliefs of the roles of fathers and mothers in childcare pull them toward certain frames and patterns of collective behavior with resultin
Access to good quality and affordable early childhood care and education (ECCE) is a win-win-win for families, particularly for working mothers to help them enter and stay in the workforce, as well...
An additional public preschool per 1,000 children raises the employment of mothers of eligible-aged children by 6.9 percentage points, an increase of about 13%.
This session will present evidence on the factors that contribute to female farmers’ productivity gaps in different regions and examples of interventions that can help narrow these gaps and improve women’s welfare.
This webinar will showcase findings from the recently published global database on gender diversity in water and sanitation utilities and will highlight actions implemented by Lilongwe Water Board in Malawi to improve gender diversity in the workforce.