Author(s): Kate McInturff & Brittany Lambert
March 7, 2016 - This study, co-published by CCPA and Oxfam Canada, looks at how women in Canada and around the world are affected by rising inequality, including the burden of unpaid work, the undervaluing of work in predominantly female fields, and the unspoken social norms that see men offered higher wages and rates of promotion than women. Women make up some of the poorest and lowest paid workers in the global economy. And, as the report shows, women are doing more and more work to grow countries’ economies without seeing equal benefits.
The study offers a number of solutions to help make women count, including a shift towards policies that support better wages and access to employment for women, better financial support of public services - like health and child care – to reduce the care burden on women, and a greater focus by governments to prioritize women’s rights.
W+ Standard to Measure Women’s Empowerment within Existing & New Projects – Added Dimensions - WOCAN
What is the W+ Standard? WOCAN created the W+ Standard in response to the need to measure the impact of women’s empowerment and accelerate investments in women- particularly women’s groups - to address persistent gaps in their access to resources and capital and scale up solutions to climate change, food security and poverty. The W+ Standard provides metrics to measure women’s empowerment within existing and new projects. This platform enables governments, companies and individuals to achieve transparency and effectiveness using a results-based framework to ensure progress. It tracks women’s empowerment in six areas: time, income, health, leadership, education and food security. W+ Units provide a way for companies and governments to measure outcomes within their own projects or purchase units as a way to count towards women’s empowerment/gender targets. - See more at: http://www.wplus.org/#sthash.ySCsi6oQ.dpuf
http://www.wplus.org/wstandard-adds-two-new-methods
Извор: WUNRN - 18.03.2016
CATALOGUE: http://files.ctctcdn.com/bc856ba5401/b694caa2-ee8d-4e05-9469-2e70ad6fdd9d.pdf
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