Decades of erosion of access to reproductive healthcare is a net loss for businesses, but corporate policies can help. Here’s how companies can take action and stand by their women workers: https://t.co/KtNEpVqU5g @BSRnews@RhiaVentures
“Globally, a two-hour increase in women’s unpaid care work is correlated with a ten-percentage-point decrease in women’s labor-force participation.” New policy paper from Melinda Gates calls for applying a gender lens to Covid 19 response 👇🏻 https://t.co/yxefBwK3T2
This Menstrual Hygiene Day, we're sharing learnings from projects in Ethiopia and India on how business can support workers through awareness raising (including with men!) and access to products
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"We have not been paid for two months. We are starving," a female garment worker, Brishti, recently told AFP. The stakes are high and urgent action needed: see the latest from my colleagues @margauxyost and @EllaMMoffat https://t.co/OAANjJ0Et4
A must-read for yr lockdown list! New biography tracing the life of one of the fathers of the organic farming movement -- author, Parisian expat, and all around hobnobber, brilliantly rendered by @steveheyman
"The surge in Covid-19 cases is straining even the most advanced and best resourced health systems to the breaking point, including those at the front line in violence response." https://t.co/rwObcfjKxj via @UN_Women
At @bsrherproject we agree #SRHR needs of girls & women during #COVID19, including:
✔️Access to modern contraception & safe abortion
✔️Protection from #GBV
✔️Access to maternal health services
Read on: https://t.co/vBdg7bwqzt @WomenDeliver
With the help of our partners and friends, @Data2X has compiled a running list of resources and current reporting on gender and #genderdata as they relate to #COVID19 preparedness and response around the world. Want to add something? Email [email protected]. https://t.co/vrwkFLT490
At @BSRnews we are committed to working with co’s to reach #genderequality quickly. Here is what we think needs to happen in this decisive decade: https://t.co/42vpSLw7te #IWD2020
Cash payments are inefficient, costly, and risky, especially for women workers. With our partners we've learned a tremendous amount about how to support a responsible transition to digital wages. So excited to share:
We are thrilled to present ‘Digital Wages: Positive Impact for Women and Business’, a report from HERfinance Digital Wages program in Bangladesh, and thank @gatesfoundation, Change Associates, MAMATA, and Young Power in Social Action (YPSA). https://t.co/8SNPUU6jqE #IWD2020
“It’s a paradox of democracy that the best way to defend it is to attack it, to ask more of it, by way of criticism, protest, and dissent.” https://t.co/WNrfkbSoTT
I was almost done interviewing Weinstein’s defense attorney when I decided to ask one more question: had she ever been sexually assaulted? “I have not,” she said at 23:50. “Because I would never put myself in that position.” Then things really heated up. https://t.co/l1ExsBCgHX
"For digital wages to be better than cash, it needs to be free for the customers. Digital service providers need to find adjacent methods to create value streams to keep the service free." - @jasonlamb68, Deputy Director, Gates Foundation
@bsrherproject@BetterThan_Cash@a2i_bd
The @CARE Made by Women Impact Report 2019 is now out, assessing progress on #genderequality in supply chains. https://t.co/Xrge8MapaL
We're proud to be working together with @CARE & others on this topic through the Empower@Work Collaborative.