Women's Economic Empowerment

Continuing gender stereotypes or signs of change: Occupational pattern of women workers

Women’s Empowerment in Emerging India

These remarks were presented at the 2016 India Conference at Harvard.

Eliminating Legal Barriers from the Perspective of the Informal Economy

This document was one of the five policy briefs prepared by the WIEGO Network for the United Nations High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic...

Photo Essay: Inside Efforts to Strengthen Leadership among Women Waste Pickers

WIEGO’s Organizing and Representation Programme and Urban Policies Programme works with waste picker organizations in South Africa and Brazil...

Women Informal Workers Challenge Invisibility in Dakar

In Dakar, Senegal, women continue to face economic and social inequities — from illiteracy to poverty to gender discrimination — but it’s...

Living on the Precipice of Extreme Poverty: How Financial Downturns Devastate the Working Poor

The global economic crisis that rocked the world in 2008 led to increased financial hardship for informal workers, most of whom already lived...

For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings

Inadequate infrastructure – particularly related to clean water and toilets – and the cost of accessing these takes a heavy toll...

Cities are undermining the potential of universal cash grants to support women’s economic empowerment and reduce poverty

Ninety-two per cent of women’s employment in the developing world is in the informal economy, and as urbanization proceeds an increasing...

How to Hit Women’s Economic Empowerment Targets: First ensure women can recognize their own dignity and self worth

Valdete Roza is a Brazilian waste picker and leader in her cooperative who is pioneering gender discussions with her colleagues across her...

Sisterhood: How Solidarity Led Indian Women to Take on Gender Discrimination

Nazma is home-based worker who has often found herself at the mercy of the sub-contractors who employ her. But now she has joined forces...