Tag
gender_equity
4 findings
Labour & employmentDeliberate Female Supervisory PromotionDeliberately promoting women to line supervisor roles successfully challenged and reduced discriminatory gender beliefs among factory staff while maintaining full operational line productivity with zero performance loss.RCTLabour & employmentGender-Differentiated Employment GainsIn the Democratic Republic of the Congo, overall public works program increases in participant employment probability and average hours worked were driven primarily by female employment gains.RCTLabour & employmentGender-Targeted Workplace Safety and Harassment MonitoringImplementing safer harassment reporting surveys empowered female workers to report physical harassment by 290% (from a baseline of 1.5%) and sexual harassment by 271% (from a baseline of 1.8%).RCTLabour & employmentStandardized Employer Reference LettersYouth receiving automated recommendation letters earned US$1,349 more cumulatively across four years and stayed in jobs 0.36 months longer. In South Africa, women using reference templates saw higher application review rates and increased 3-month employment rates, closing gender hiring gaps.RCT