WEDGE Program

Women's Empowerment: Data for Gender Equality

[Sonalde Desai @SonaldeDesai]

Thank you to IHDS users for sharing their amazing work. If you have papers using IHDS data that are not listed on IHDS website at https://t.co/a0wKTa1l11 please share. We also love hearing from readers about how to enhance the utility of this newsletter.

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

Say Goodbye to WEDGE with our final Measurement Memo https://t.co/ZRwfZDISvg that discusses our team's piece in ARS on Women's Economic Empowerment. Thanks for the support. Website (https://t.co/y2qFHcRjQe) with our extensive resources will remain alive. @SonaldeDesai @shilpav82

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

WEDGE's July Measurement Brief here: https://t.co/5Uhq0uJOly An Op-Ed from Sonal Desai (@SonaldeDesai) on recent abortion ruling & blog from Arun Balachandran (@Arun_balachandr) on the importance of gender sensitive economic policy for women's labor force participation. @socyumd

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

WEDGE Measurement Memo for Feb Here: https://t.co/3IKJTESNhN See WEDGE team's forthcoming paper: Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South, and an article by Tayal & Mehta on gendered COVID impact.@SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr @keeraallendorf @omijomi

[Keera Allendorf @KeeraAllendorf]

Excited to see @ihdscorner’s very own @Arun_balachandr featured in the inspirational new @IUSSP video on demography! Arun introduces population aging in India at minute 4:10. Demographers unite indeed! Video on main page of https://t.co/PSboepyDy1

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

December WEDGE Memo: https://t.co/II9kOxCVVF Great article by Yue Qian on household division of labor in Wuhan during lockdown, & an article on the National Advocacy Coalition on Women Economic Empowerment in Kenya. @SonaldeDesai @socyumd @Arun_balachandr @KeeraAllendorf

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

WEDGE Measurement Memo for November: https://t.co/uFmGLDH8Ea A great piece on REPRODUCTIVE & ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT by Gammage, Rodgers & Joshi AND Ashwini Tambe on SEXUAL MATURITY LAWS IN INDIA from a girls' perspective. @SonaldeDesai @socyumd @Arun_balachandr

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

@kkosec @KeeraAllendorf @SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr @ceciliamo Thanks! We love sharing the important work of scholars who focus on domains of women's empowerment. Your article has a great measurement focus on priming experiments. https://t.co/zC07emWsc2

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

Oct. WEDGE Measurement Memo: https://t.co/fiTGUsZiKT Two great articles 1.@KeeraAllendorf on why we should study sonless families, and 2.Katrina Kosec & Cecilia Hyunjung Mo on using priming experiments to study gender attitudes. @SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr @kkosec

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

Sonalde Desai's latest op-ed...

[NCAER @ncaer]

Today's Op-Ed by @SonaldeDesai &
@Santanu_NDIC in the @EconomicTimes.
Do Read!
Why Indian employment experience is anything like the 'great American resignation' https://t.co/zrv2c8aPKa via
@economictimes #employment #EconTwitter.

[EMERGE @EMERGE_GEH]

We have developed 18 new survey modules since March 2020 on #gender, #health, and the #Covid_19 pandemic.
Modules here: https://t.co/pXBD9z0beb
#SDG5 @UNDataForum @GEH_UCSD

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

Let us know about your work in gender empowerment -- you can tag us @GenderWedge... We are always interested in connecting with folks working on WEE in low and middle income countries.

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

New WEDGE Measurement Memo available here: https://t.co/5pw4gVV5As Blog posts by Ashwini Deshpande on measuring women's work, and Sojin Yu on childcare in LMICs.

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

Overview of the WEE literature latest WEDGE blog, “Two decades of theorising and measuring women’s empowerment: Literature review and future research agenda,” by Priya, Venkatesh, & Shukla in the Women’s Studies Int'l Forum, https://t.co/ngW1Vcn46t @SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr

[Gender & Health Hub @genderhealthhub]

🎤Podcast episode 1:

🗣Join us as we talk about what gender transformative health means and how we can make #GenderEquality in #HealthSystems happen.

🎧Listen now: https://t.co/NoTgjvGGr8

@UNU_IIGH @AvniNAmin @annarcoates @ashageorge72 @lavanyav149

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

Interested in using time diaries to measure an aspect of women's empowerment? Check out Celeste Marin's blog comparing time diaries with interviews in rural Guatemala and urban Brazil. https://t.co/HtnqsDkU5v @SonaldeDesai @LCHSayer

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

Measurement Memo for August from WEDGE: https://t.co/1vvQ0k1LSL Check out monthly updates on measurement of women's empowerment in LMICs. @socyumd @SonaldeDesai @UMD_MPRC @omijomi @Neerad_D @Arun_balachandr

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

New WEDGE Measurement Memo out today with a blog post by Sonalde Desai and Feinian Chen, "China's Three Child Policy: Unlikely To Succeed Without Gender Equality" https://t.co/HY8kZL28LR @SonaldeDesai @socyumd @Arun_balachandr

[WEDGE Program @GenderWedge]

June WEDGE memo features Dir. of Population Foundation of India Poonam Muttreja - article on the transmedia edutainment show Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon (MKBKSH – I, A Woman, Can Achieve Anything) https://t.co/GLOrQnvbI1 @SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr @socyumd @Letstransform

[IHDS Corner @ihdscorner]

IHDS June Forum newsletter available here: https://t.co/b7nHZg1Vq6 Two great papers and recent articles in the news by IHDS team. Go to website to join mailing list: https://t.co/TzIVkxIMmS @SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr @omijomi @socyumd @Neerad_D @omijomi