Women's Economic Empowerment

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Gender and the Business of Innovation
Charles Kenny
and
Megan O'Donnell
January 19, 2017
Women account for just 15 percent of all listed inventors behind nine million patent applications across 182 countries. On current rates, we won’t achieve gender parity in inventors until around 2080. It would be in the interests of both innovative firms and the countries that house ...
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Expanding Women’s Role in Developing Technology: Increasing Productivity, Improving Lives
Charles Kenny
and
Megan O'Donnell
January 19, 2017
Just as the evidence suggests that a more gender-inclusive political system may lead to better policies for women and girls and integrating women into corporate boards may mean reaching new consumers, there is a case to be made for increasing women’s presence in developing technology and innov...
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Women Are Not All Born Equal—And It Matters
Tanvi Jaluka et al.
January 11, 2017
This post takes a deeper dive into women’s specific situations, and in particular their socioeconomic levels, as an important factor for consideration when seeking to both improve and measure economic outcomes.
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Preferences for Women Migrants from Gender-Unequal Countries: A Win for Migrants, Host, and Home Countries
Charles Kenny
and
Megan O'Donnell
December 20, 2016
The benefits of the migration of women to women themselves, sending, and receiving countries are well-documented. But across the world, women face higher barriers to migration than do men: in accessing the education and work experience that can help qualify them for visas, or in finding the resource...