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Urban Institute

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26 April 2019

A woman distributes cassava cuttings while others plant them on on July 12, 2017 in Nigeria. (Photo by STEFAN HEUNIS/AFP/Getty Images).
Gender norms and women’s economic empowerment in low-income countries: What we learned by reviewing the evidence
Authors: H. Elizabeth Peters, Shirley Adelstein, Robert Abare

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1 April 2019

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Qualitative evidence on barriers to and facilitators of women’s participation in higher or growing productivity and male-dominated labour market sectors in low- and middle-income countries
Authors: H. Elizabeth Peters, Yasemin Irvin-Erickson, Shirley Adelstein, Ammar A Malik, Teresa Derrick-Mills, Alberto Valido, Dorothy Esplage

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