Gretchen Donehower 3/10/16 Gretchen Donehower 3/10/16

Public Policy Focus on Women's Unpaid Care Work in Costa Rica

"Knowledge Management for Public Policy Based on Evidence: Giving Visibility to the Unremunerated Work of Women", hosted by the Centro Centroamericano de Población, the Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres and the Programa Estado de la Nación, San José, Costa Rica. 10 March 2016. Presentations by Pamela Jiménez-Fontana and Piedad Urdinola.

Pamela Jiménez-Fontana, CWW's Costa Rica team leader, and Piedad Urdinola, Colombia CWW team leader, participated in a seminar entitled "Knowledge Management for Public Policy Based on Evidence: Giving Visibility to the Unremunerated Work of Women", hosted by the Central American Population Center (Centro Centroamericano de Población), the National Women's Institute (Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres) and the State of the Nation Programme (Programa Estado de la Nación). The event took place in San José, Costa Rica, on March 10, 2016.

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Infographic, South Africa

CWW infographics summarize the market-based and unpaid care work economy in a country. This post shows the infographic for South Africa.

Counting Women’s Work estimates of the market and unpaid care work economies can be summarized with a series of statistics. CWW produces infographics to show these results. Infographics are available with a dark or light background. The infographic for South Africa is shown below.

All infographics are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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Infographic, United States

CWW infographics summarize the market-based and unpaid care work economy in a country. This post shows the infographic for the United States.

All infographics are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Counting Women's Work 2/19/16 Counting Women's Work 2/19/16

Infographic, Costa Rica

CWW infographics summarize the market-based and unpaid care work economy in a country. This post shows the infographic for Costa Rica.

All infographics are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Troy Flowers 2/15/16 Troy Flowers 2/15/16

Costa Rica CWW Research Highlighted

The University of Costa Rica has issued a press release on the Counting Women's Work research on Costa Rica. This research is led by Pamela Jiménez-Fontana.

The University of Costa Rica has issued a press release on the Counting Women's Work research on Costa Rica. This research is led by Pamela Jiménez-Fontana. The press release (in Spanish) can be found here.

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Women's Economic Activity and Gender Dividends

Economic activity is heavily gender-determined, leading to large differences in labor income; based on different labor force participation but also, different wages. What “gender dividend” might we get in the future from closing some of the gaps?

Economic activity is heavily gender-determined, leading to large differences in labor income, based on different labor force participation but also, different wages. What “gender dividend” might we get in the future from closing some of the gaps?

This was the theme of a presentation by Gretchen Donehower, Project Director for Counting Women’s Work, at the “Workshop on the Demographic Dividend”, International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) 2016, held in Nusa Dua, Indonesia, on 25th January 2016.

Gretchen, based at the University of California at Berkeley, discussed how a demographic dividend is impacted by long-term demographic change and changing gender roles are a key set of links in this chain.

Click here to view the full slide deck.