Facilitating jobs for women is a development agenda that is critical for addressing gender inequality and for yielding huge economic payoffs. There is increasing demand from operational teams for in-depth diagnostics and evidence. To that end, the World Bank produces a wide range of research and knowledge in this area, but there is considerable scope for additional cross-regional and cross-sectoral research collaboration, knowledge exchange, and learning.
Currently under development, The Center for Research on Women and Jobs is an initiative led by the World Bank's Development Research Group in collaboration with the Bank's regional Gender Innovation Labs and other key partners to coordinate policy research efforts on women and jobs. A future website will bring together a curated catalogue of research on priority thematic areas (e.g., social norms; care economy; skills; digitalization), a directory of staff working on the issue, syntheses of key research and policy recommendations, a map of ongoing work, and more!