WEDGE Program

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Say Goodbye to WEDGE with our final Measurement Memo bit.ly/3y56rJc that discusses our team's piece in ARS on Women's Economic Empowerment. Thanks for the support. Website (wedge.umd.edu) with our extensive resources will remain alive. @SonaldeDesai @shilpav82

WEDGE's July Measurement Brief here: mailchi.mp/0195172c8d2d/w… An Op-Ed from Sonal Desai (@SonaldeDesai) on recent abortion ruling & blog from Arun Balachandran (@Arun_balachandr) on the importance of gender sensitive economic policy for women's labor force participation. @socyumd

WEDGE Measurement Memo for Feb Here: bit.ly/3Iuam59 See WEDGE team's forthcoming paper: Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South, and an article by Tayal & Mehta on gendered COVID impact.@SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr @keeraallendorf @omijomi

Excited to see @ihdscorner’s very own @Arun_balachandr featured in the inspirational new @IUSSP video on demography! Arun introduces population aging in India at minute 4:10. Demographers unite indeed! Video on main page of iussp.org

December WEDGE Memo: bit.ly/3H2gxN0 Great article by Yue Qian on household division of labor in Wuhan during lockdown, & an article on the National Advocacy Coalition on Women Economic Empowerment in Kenya. @SonaldeDesai @socyumd @Arun_balachandr @KeeraAllendorf

WEDGE Measurement Memo for November: bit.ly/3cBXOKG A great piece on REPRODUCTIVE & ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT by Gammage, Rodgers & Joshi AND Ashwini Tambe on SEXUAL MATURITY LAWS IN INDIA from a girls' perspective. @SonaldeDesai @socyumd @Arun_balachandr

@kkosec @KeeraAllendorf @SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr @ceciliamo Thanks! We love sharing the important work of scholars who focus on domains of women's empowerment. Your article has a great measurement focus on priming experiments. bit.ly/3bbWLjZ

@GenderWedge @KeeraAllendorf @SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr Thanks to the terrific team at @GenderWedge for distributing these helpful measurement memos -- @ceciliamo and I enjoyed working with you all on the October post!

Oct. WEDGE Measurement Memo: bit.ly/30ZTa6W Two great articles 1.@KeeraAllendorf on why we should study sonless families, and 2.Katrina Kosec & Cecilia Hyunjung Mo on using priming experiments to study gender attitudes. @SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr @kkosec

Sonalde Desai's latest op-ed...

We have developed 18 new survey modules since March 2020 on #gender, #health, and the #Covid_19 pandemic. Modules here: emerge.ucsd.edu/covid-19/ #SDG5 @UNDataForum @GEH_UCSD

Let us know about your work in gender empowerment -- you can tag us @GenderWedge... We are always interested in connecting with folks working on WEE in low and middle income countries.

New WEDGE Measurement Memo available here: bit.ly/3CNPXF8 Blog posts by Ashwini Deshpande on measuring women's work, and Sojin Yu on childcare in LMICs.

Overview of the WEE literature latest WEDGE blog, “Two decades of theorising and measuring women’s empowerment: Literature review and future research agenda,” by Priya, Venkatesh, & Shukla in the Women’s Studies Int'l Forum, bit.ly/3l3clmC @SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr

🎤Podcast episode 1: 🗣Join us as we talk about what gender transformative health means and how we can make #GenderEquality in #HealthSystems happen. 🎧Listen now: go.unu.edu/VQ6wX @UNU_IIGH @AvniNAmin @annarcoates @ashageorge72 @lavanyav149

Interested in using time diaries to measure an aspect of women's empowerment? Check out Celeste Marin's blog comparing time diaries with interviews in rural Guatemala and urban Brazil. wedge.umd.edu/assessing-use-… @SonaldeDesai @LCHSayer

Measurement Memo for August from WEDGE: mailchi.mp/682e86616373/w… Check out monthly updates on measurement of women's empowerment in LMICs. @socyumd @SonaldeDesai @UMD_MPRC @omijomi @Neerad_D @Arun_balachandr

New WEDGE Measurement Memo out today with a blog post by Sonalde Desai and Feinian Chen, "China's Three Child Policy: Unlikely To Succeed Without Gender Equality" bit.ly/3AhyDYw @SonaldeDesai @socyumd @Arun_balachandr

June WEDGE memo features Dir. of Population Foundation of India Poonam Muttreja - article on the transmedia edutainment show Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon (MKBKSH – I, A Woman, Can Achieve Anything) wedge.umd.edu/power-social-a… @SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr @socyumd @Letstransform

IHDS June Forum newsletter available here: mailchi.mp/f658e212dc8b/i… Two great papers and recent articles in the news by IHDS team. Go to website to join mailing list: ihds.umd.edu @SonaldeDesai @Arun_balachandr @omijomi @socyumd @Neerad_D @omijomi