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December 12, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Women's Social Status and Family Law

This panel assesses progress in family law reform, and highlight recommendations to effect legal and social change to advance women’s economic participation.  

Podcast Women's Social Status and Family Law

January 9, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Women's Land Rights

Leading international institutions and private sector corporations have concluded that women’s economic participation is critical to global growth and prosperity. However, today nearly 90 percent of …

Podcast Women's land rights - India

September 29, 2022

Inequality
Gender Equality and Amplifying Women's Voices

Ann Norris, senior fellow for women and foreign policy at CFR, along with Meredith Martino, executive director of Women in Government, discuss women’s rights efforts and amplifying female voices in g…

Play Image of Crowd at Global Citizen Festival

May 22, 2018

Women and Economic Growth
Legal Barriers to Women’s Economic Participation: Progress and Challenges

Despite the relationship between women’s labor force participation and growth, legal barriers continue to inhibit women’s economic potential around the world. According to the World Bank’s 2018 Women…

Podcast Women trainees during a Female Dump Truck Driver Programme training session held by the Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC), in Tharparkar, Pakistan. September 21, 2017.

July 14, 2020

CFR Master Class Series With Rachel Vogelstein

Please join Rachel Vogelstein for a discussion on gender equality in U.S. foreign policy, including a look at the relationship between women's workplace participation and economic growth.   The CF…

Play Women wear pink hats as they participate in the 2017 Women's March.