Focus On: Gender Data

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Focus on: Gender data

Opinion: COVID-19 recovery provides a unique opportunity to close the gender gap

By Megan O’Donnell
Devex
Focus on: Gender data

Where are the women in food insecurity analysis?

By Amy Lieberman
Devex
Focus on: Gender data

Q&A: A case for gender-smart investment

By Rumbi Chakamba
Focus on: Gender data

Experts advocate for 'basic set of metrics' to define women's economic empowerment

Many gender data experts see the need to harmonize indicators, but debate continues over how realistic it is to unify metrics on such a complex issue.

Gender data

Opinion: To end violence against women, we must uncover inconvenient truths

As the world struggles to emerge from COVID-19 and the shadow pandemic of violence against women, UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office Director Björn Andersson calls on all governments to adopt an integrated four-step strategy.

Focus on: Gender data

Colombia makes intersectionality the focus of its data collection approach

Colombia's national statistics office has made gender-disaggregated data collection a priority but also seeks data separated by a wide range of other indicators.

Focus on: Gender data

Will these 3 gender data trends outlast the pandemic?

As some in-person data collection resumes — with masked researchers at a safe distance — organizations are beginning to evaluate which of the gender data collection methods adopted in crisis should remain.

Focus on: Gender data

Participatory gender data collection gains ground — but not without 'hard fight'

Participatory data collection allows women to become directly engaged in the development and execution of surveys and other methods. But the work is also time-consuming, dependent on political will, and still the exception to the rule, experts say.

Focus on: Gender data

Number of UN women leaders grew under Guterres, with some caveats

The number of top-level female leaders at the U.N. has jumped during U.N. chief António Guterres' tenure, new analysis shows. But other trends, like regional disparity, remain largely unchanged.

Focus on: Gender data

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

Against a backdrop of uneven progress toward equality for women and girls, data and development professionals call for greater investment to ensure COVID-19 recovery includes gender in decision-making.

Focus on: Gender data

Gender data: How expensive is it, really?

There are multiple reasons for the gender data gaps that existed long before COVID-19 — but financing shouldn't be one of them, experts tell Devex.

Focus on: Gender data

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

Recent research from the International Rescue Committee aims to close the data gap around refugee women and highlight the different barriers they face in gaining employment.

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.

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