The International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) invite you to our Commission on the Status of Women parallel session.

Economic empowerment initiatives often focus on strengthening women’s capacities and opportunities. However, many barriers women face are systemic, rooted in patriarchal norms and unseen by male decision-makers, because they don’t experience them. Progress is further hampered by lack of age and disability disaggregated data about multiple barriers to women’s economic empowerment. Individual-level, multidimensional data on poverty and inequality can help reveal these barriers.

With COVID-19 reversing gains on poverty and inequality, such data is critical to ensure gender-equal recovery. Panellists in this session will illustrate how availability of disaggregated data enabled gender-responsive action, with a focus on action in the Pacific.