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doi
10.1016/978-1-4648-1541-6
handle
10986/34140

Women and Trade : The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality

Flag for IGO World Bank on July 17th 2020
World Trade Organization
Trade can dramatically improve women’s lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women’s bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between trade and gender, it is essential to assess the potential impact of trade policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate, evidence-based policies to ensure that trade helps to enhance opportunities for all. Research on gender equality and trade has been constrained by limited data and a lack of understanding of the connections among the economic roles that women play as workers, consumers, and decision makers. Building on new analyses and new sex-disaggregated data, Women and Trade: The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality aims to advance the understanding of the relationship between trade and gender equality and to identify a series of opportunities through which trade can improve the lives of wo...

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Related SDGs

SDG 5: Gender Equality ...
SDG 5: Gender Equality

Target 5.a

Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth ...
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Target 8.5

Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

Cites research funded by

1 Eesti Teadusagentuur 1 Ministry of Education - Singapore 5 ESRC 5 ESRC January 2022 1 Research Council of Norway 1 Norges Forskningsråd 1 Sundhed og Sygdom, Det Frie Forskningsråd 1 European Research Council 1 H2020 European Research Council 1 H2020 Excellent Science 1 Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 1 ERCEA (Special project, May 2022) 1 UKRI (Special project, May 2022) 1 Economic and Social Research Council 1 University of Oxford 1 University of Zurich 1 Keynes Fund 1 Cambridge INET for generous 1 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 1 Universität Zürich 1 SSHRC (Special project, May 2022) 1 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1 Ontario Ministry for Innovation 1 Environmental Studies Research Funds 1 Wharton Dean’s Research Fund 1 Russell Sage Foundation 1 National Science Foundation 1 NSF (Special project, May 2022) 1 DFID/ESRC Growth program 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China 1 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 1 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 1 H2020_ERC (Special project, May 2022) 1 Department for International Development, UK Government

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