Focus On: Gender Data

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Focus on: Gender data

Experts call for 'deeper data' on women's realities at UN World Data Forum

By Lisa Cornish
Devex
Focus on: Gender data

Gender data: How expensive is it, really?

By Kelli Rogers
Devex
Focus on: Gender data

New insights from displaced women reveal limits of one-size-fits-all employment approach

By Emma Smith
Focus on: Gender data

New tool tracks how policies are protecting women during COVID-19

The COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker aims to monitor progress and share best practices in order to support countries in developing social protection and employment responses that prioritize gender equality.

Focus on: Gender data

Opinion: We lack an essential component to power COVID-19 response

The high variability in sex-disaggregated data is a major obstacle to both national analyses and intercountry comparisons, according to partners involved in the creation of a new, open-access COVID-19 dashboard on sex and gender.

Focus on: Gender data

Pandemic is widening poverty gap between women and men, new UN findings show

For every 100 men aged 25 to 34 living in extreme poverty in 2021, there will be 118 women living on $1.90 or less per day, according to a new U.N. report. The findings offer one of the first insights into the pandemic's gendered — and long-term — impacts.

Focus on: Gender data

15 African statisticians unite to advance gender data across the continent

The Africa Gender Data Network provides a space for statisticians to share best practices and learn the latest methodologies in data gathering.

Focus on: Gender data

Opinion: 4 ways digital platforms can expand economic opportunity for women

Women face substantial limitations in accessing digital tools. But existing initiatives offer practical guidance to companies that want to support gender equality in the platform economy, writes Charlotte Ntim of the International Finance Corporation.

Focus on: Gender data

Q&A: Kenya launches first women’s empowerment index

The data will allow policymakers to compare women’s empowerment in Kenya with other countries and design programs, laws, and policies to close the gender gap, says Maureen Gitonga, gender statistics program specialist at UN Women.

Focus on: Gender data

Pandemic puts reproductive health care out of reach for millions, new data shows

Almost 2 million women and girls have been unable to access Marie Stopes International’s services in the first six months of 2020. The organization estimates that this could result in 3,100 additional maternal deaths.

Focus on: Gender data

Dramatic rise in Kenya early pregnancies amid school closures, IRC data suggests

Data gathered by the International Rescue Committee in northern Kenya adds weight to fears that school closures and lockdowns have led to a surge in early and unintended pregnancies.

Focus on: Gender data

How are women spending time? Overlooked survey method gains prominence during pandemic

Time use surveys routinely show that women perform more unpaid care work at home than men. These findings do not always translate into policy action — but the data is becoming more important than ever during the global health crisis.

Focus on: Gender data

'Statistics that can and will be used': Pacific Islands devise new gender data plans

The "Pacific Roadmap on Gender Statistics" provides the region with a toolkit to support the collection of better quality sex-disaggregated data. Devex takes a look at how the roadmap will be implemented in Micronesia and Palau.

Focus on: Gender data

Opinion: To enable UHC, close COVID-19 testing and gender gaps

COVID-19 has surfaced long standing fault lines in the way health care is provided and managed. Women’s limited access to testing, in particular, threatens to undermine the global goal of universal health coverage, write two global health experts.

Focus on: Gender data

Check your bias, gender data experts warn

Groups must overcome their own “organizational cultural blinders" to design and conduct inclusive research, according to several data experts.

Focus on: Gender data

Opinion: ‘Silent discriminator’ — the women global data is leaving behind

Incomplete data during the COVID-19 pandemic poses terrifying consequences for women. A global response will require filling those data gaps so that “unknowns become knowns,” write two experts from Rwanda’s University of Global Health Equity.

Focus on: Gender data

In Burkina Faso, access to gender data is complicated by conflict

A surge in violence has made it harder for organizations to reach vulnerable populations — and to collect data. Nuanced information is more critical than ever to protect against worsening gender inequalities, humanitarians tell Devex.

Focus on: Gender data

Q&A: What early data says about gendered impacts of COVID-19

UN Women rolled out surveys in multiple countries in Asia and the Pacific just weeks after the pandemic was declared. Statistics specialist Sara Duerto Valero explains how the agency was able to act so quickly, and what the data reveals so far about the impacts of the crisis on men and women.

Focus on: Gender data

Interactive: Explore 25 years of uneven gains for girls

Twenty-five years after committing to action on gender equality, global data suggests that there have been achievements in education, health, and rights for girls. But delving deeper shows the inequality within these numbers.

Focus on: Gender data

Has it become too dangerous to measure violence against women?

Collecting data on gender-based violence is a sensitive endeavor under any circumstance. Devex asks experts what it looks like now — when women may be in lockdown with their abusers.

Focus on: Gender data

Opinion: Without gender data, we leave critical COVID-19 clues on the table

It is not too late to prioritize sex-disaggregated data. Two U.N. directors in Asia and the Pacific discuss how gender statistics can inform the response to COVID-19.

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