Innovation alone does not guarantee inclusion: what makes the difference is how a system uses the information available to shape choices, products, and policies. For digital finance to be truly open to women, we need adequate infrastructure, transparency, and shared criteria for collecting the data that inform decision-making
Alongside the digital revolution, profit-driven international trade dynamics have a direct impact on labour and democracies, deepening global inequalities. An interview with Sheba Tejani, feminist economist at King’s College London and member of the Board of Directors of IAFFE
The Hungarian Recovery and Resilience Plan ignores the EU expectations concerning gender mainstreaming and the effects that the measures could have on gender equality are not mentioned.
In women we trust: time is ripe to increase gender diversity in central banks
The Finnish Basic income experiment that started in 2017 is coming to its end. What next?
Reducing gender inequalities requires smart and sustained investment in policies and approaches that have proven impact in dismantling obstacles to women’s rights and empowerment. Why the United Nations needs to take the lead now in financing gender equality
"We don’t know how women have voted in the referendum, but there are roughly one million more women than men in the UK so, potentially, women could have determined the outcome". Elizabeth Pollitzer analysis on the Brexit lessons
A special State-guaranteed revolving fund for Small and Medium Enterprises was set up in Italy in the year 2000. The fund specifically addresses the many cases of women entrepreneurs who need credit to launch or develop their business
Resolution signed by more of 135 delegates at 24th Annual Conference of International Association for Feminist Economics (July 16-18, 2015) as personal expression of concern
A wake-up call from the United States: with the pension system crysis, it becomes crucial to know how to manage our assets and make them bear fruit. And also, women are single in different stages of life and always longer: it is no more possible to leave the control of investments and savings to men.
Fewer and fewer women on Wall Street. An article in The Atlantic has investigated the relationship between the crisis and women's leadership in high finance. Despite the female financial analysts are on average better than their male colleagues, the environment remains male-dominated.
Diana Strassmann discusses her work shifting economics from a discipline of neglect to one of care...
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Michelle Obama endorses Hillary Clinton in a speech at the democratic national convention
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For the first Women in Science Day GenPORT will release a series of video interviews with leading...
