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Rethinking gender-responsive procurement: Enabling an ecosystem for women’s economic empowerment
Rethinking gender-responsive procurement: Enabling an ecosystem for women’s economic empowerment
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This publication discusses ways to broaden the scope of gender-responsive procurement from a focus on only promoting women’s enterprises to also including gender-responsive enterprises. The publication aims to inspire a transformative conceptualization of gender-responsive procurement that supports both equal market opportunities for women’s enterprises and equal outcomes for women in the labour market and the business environment.
Assessing the gendered employment impacts of COVID-19 and supporting a gender-responsive recovery
Assessing the gendered employment impacts of COVID-19 and supporting a gender-responsive recovery
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This policy tool is designed to document the extent to which gender inequalities in the labour market are being exacerbated by the pandemic, thereby informing a better understanding on how to protect workers and promote a gender-responsive economic recovery. The tool will also help identify policies for improving working conditions in female-dominated economic sectors and promoting greater inclusion of women workers in new promising sectors, thus widening their opportunities.

A guide to public investments in the care economy: Policy support tool for estimating care deficits, investment costs, and economic returns
A guide to public investments in the care economy: Policy support tool for estimating care deficits, investment costs, and economic returns
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UN Women has emerged as a global leader in the promotion of the care economy, and this work has highlighted the urgent need to invest in childcare facilities through private and public partnerships to reduce women’s unpaid care work and to allow women to take an active role in the economy. This policy tool provides a blueprint for making a policy case for sustained investment in the care economy.

Spotlight on SDG 8: The impact of marriage and children on labour market participation
Spotlight on SDG 8: The impact of marriage and children on labour market participation
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How are women’s employment outcomes shaped by domestic and caregiving responsibilities? Drawing on a global dataset and new indicators developed by UN Women and the International Labour Organization, this paper provides insights into the distribution of domestic and caregiving responsibilities within various types of households—insights that are critical at this juncture when policies and programmes are being designed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic fallout.
Family-friendly policies and other good workplace practices in the context of COVID-19: Key steps employers can take
Family-friendly policies and other good workplace practices in the context of COVID-19: Key steps employers can take
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With many businesses struggling to survive as a consequence of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, loss of jobs and income and rising working poverty are a reality for many workers. This document offers (interim) recommendations for employers to mitigate the negative consequences stemming from COVID-19.
Fiscal space for social protection: A handbook for assessing financing options
Fiscal space for social protection: A handbook for assessing financing options
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This handbook provides practical guidance, elaborated with case studies, on how additional fiscal space can be created for a universal social protection system. The analyses should help governments on how they can increase spending on priority sectors for women, children, and vulnerable groups.
Handbook: Addressing violence and harassment against women in the world of work
Handbook: Addressing violence and harassment against women in the world of work
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This handbook, produced by UN Women and the ILO, provides practical guidance and examples of how to address violence and harassment against women in various work settings. The handbook includes: background on the issues, relevant international and regional policy and legal frameworks, the role of state and non-state actors, social dialogue, situations in which women are more exposed, how to respond, and entry points for prevention.
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