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India’s rate of female labour force participation dropped from 37% in 1990 to 28% in 2015. Can greater control over earned income incentivise women to work and influence gender norms? This article discusses findings from a large-scale experiment in collaboration…
This quantitative research by MSC, commissioned by BSR, analyzed the financial behavior of female garment workers in India as part of efforts to improve wage digitization processes and methodology.
This blog explains how the HERfinance Digital Wages Tech Learning Tool incorporates technology to make learning and training more engaging for workers. It also discusses how technology can play a role in bridging the digital gender divide and giving women…
The HERfinance Digital Wages program, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, works with global brands and their suppliers to help factories transition from cash salary payments to digital wages. This video follows three women during the process and…
This report shares the results from a recent landscaping exercise that identifies the constraints to effectively serving Bihari women through National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), India’s largest safety net program for rural households. The report is structured in line…
This note for policymakers explores how States in the region – particularly those with a high percentage of migrant workers – can initiate a systematic, evidence-based process for setting and adjusting minimum wages, drawing on ILO standards and international good…
Jordan pledges to promote pay equity between women and men through digital
The National Committee for Pay Equity and the Stand-up with Teachers Campaign had lobbied for the move since late 2017 with the support of the ILO.
This report examines the opportunity to expand financial inclusion for women in India’s garment sector by increasing women’s access to and use of mobile financial products and services.
This report highlights the opportunities, problems, and challenges related to women’s financial inclusion through the adoption of mobile financial services in Bangladesh, based on a nationally representative survey of 2,000 women mobile financial services (MFS) users and 2,000 women non-users…