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How to Advance Women’s Economic Security Using Insights from Behavioral Science

July 31, 2023
The United States Strategy on Global Women’s Economic Security (2023) envisions a world in which women and girls in all their diversity are equally able to contribute to and benefit from economic growth and development.
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In Ghana, six young women are each sitting in front of a computer screen, and a male instructor is helping one of the girls navigate the computer.

Bridging the Gender Digital Divide: Four Approaches to Bringing Women Online From the USAID/Microsoft Airband Initiative

April 7, 2023

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Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub
Globally, women are 18 percent less likely than men to own a smartphone. This statistic illustrates— particularly in low-income, rural households— the ‘gender digital divide’ where women are less likely to be connected to the Internet and have access to important tools that could improve their lives.
Bedouin woman working for the TWLCRM initiative in Petra, Jordan.

Let Women Work: Regulatory Issues and Wage Employment

October 5, 2018

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Wade Channell,
Anastasia de Santos
For poor women around the world, their two hands are often their most important ticket out of poverty. If they can find paid wage work in the same way that men do, it not only improves their own physical welfare, but also contributes to greater GDP growth.