Empowering Work

How are women in different categories of work trying to reposition themselves in public (including markets) and domestic spheres to change attitudes, break barriers, achieve recognition, enhance their bargaining power and exercise their rights at home and at work?

Work under this theme will explore:

how the sexual division of labour in the domestic sphere is being restructured and at how the disconnect between women’s paid and unpaid work can be reduced
how women as economic actors, cross-border traders and migrants can enhance their incomes, influence, assets and personal safety, especially in post conflict contexts
how women’s rights as workers and caregivers can be enhanced, and what mechanisms and forms of recognition can best support women’s work as a tool for empowerment
how women workers organize to claim rights and recognition