Accelerating Progress in Gender Equality
Providing equal access to economic opportunities for men and women is essential to ensure a sustainable and thriving economy. Tackling gender inequality is a complex, long-term challenge that requires broad social engagement, in addition to economic opportunities, access to land, financial instruments, and information and communication technology tools. The Capacity Building and Training Department will scale up support for gender equality by concentrating on economically helping women, pursuing gender equality in human development, enhancing gender equality in decision making among leaders, reducing women’s time poverty, and strengthening women’s resilience to external shocks.
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Virtual Policy Dialogue on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Asia: Challenges and Ways Forward
This ADBI virtual policy dialogue will assess the progress of gender-related policies and the COVID-19 pandemic’s implications for gender equality in Asia. -
ADBI Annual Forum on Expanding Women’s Participation in the Asian Economy: Securing Livelihoods for an Inclusive Recovery
This forum will spotlight priorities for achieving a gender-inclusive pandemic recovery in the region, with a focus on policy adjustments that could help to ensure and build upon progress toward expanding women’s education, employment. -
ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar: Anjali Adukia on Sanitation, Education, and Development
This webinar will feature the University of Chicago’s Anjali Adukia, who will present her research on the link between school sanitation infrastructure, education growth, and development in India. -
Women CEOs Summit: Globalization 4.0 and Beyond: Shaping the Future of Women Enterprises
ADBI, partnering with AWEN and the Thai government, is organizing the inaugural Women CEOs Summit in ASEAN, highlighting women entrepreneurship while addressing challenges in achieving the SDG 5 and ADB's 2030 priority on gender equality -
Gender Dimension of Health and the Sustainable Development Goals
Training workshop to accelerate gender equality through improved sexual and reproductive health.
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Digital Doorstep Banking: Female Banking Agents Lead Digital Financial Inclusion Through the Pandemic and Beyond
India has made significant progress toward financial inclusion with the support of technological and policy innovations. -
Who Benefits from Piped Water in the House? Empirical Evidence from a Gendered Analysis in India
Access to piped water could be a crucial determinant of differences in women’s socioeconomic outcomes between developed and developing economies. -
Narrow Gender Earnings Gap in the Urban Areas of the People’s Republic of China: To What Extent Does Service Economy Matter?
Simply increasing the share of the service economy is not likely to narrow the gender earnings gap in urban People's Republic of China. -
The Quiet Revolution in Women’s Human Capital and the Gender Earnings Gap in the People’s Republic of China
Labor market discrimination is the main barrier to narrowing the gender earnings gap in the People’s Republic of China. -
Do Women Benefit from FDI? FDI and Labor Market Outcomes in Cambodia
Attracting foreign direct investment can help Cambodia to increase overall productivity and boost growth. -
Illusion of Gender Parity in Education: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Bangladesh
Gender parity in education cannot be measured by the gender parity in enrollment alone. -
Closing the Gender Gap in Financial Inclusion through Fintech
While the percentage of women owning an account in Asia and the Pacific increased from 2014 to 2017, the gender gap persists. -
Gender and Corporate Success: An Empirical Analysis of Gender-Based Corporate Performance on a Sample of Asian Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Women's precarious position in society leads to a prevalence of gender inequality in education, financial literacy, and access to finance. -
Toward Gender-Focused Governance Reform in Asia
Closing the gender gap in the global labor force could result in significant economic gains.