Elevating women leaders in Myanmar
Many hurdles remain to achieve gender equality in Myanmar politics and society at large. Research supported by Canada’s Knowledge for Democracy Myanmar Initiative is identifying opportunities to close the gap.
Myanmar Speaker Series: Working Pathways to Women’s Political Participation
October 29, 2020
The World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Gender Gap Report assesses women’s empowerment across four dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity; Education Attainment; Health and Survival; and Political Empowerment. The latter one tends to be a very critical dimension to determine the size and direction of the gap. Political empowerment measures participation of women in parliament and the number of women ministers in the country. Within the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Philippines performs the best and Myanmar the worst, putting the country 114th in the global ranking of out of 153 countries.
Meeting the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar
July 8, 2020 Research in Action article from IDRC AREELUCK PHANKHIAN/ILOCOVID-19 has forced many migrant workers back to Myanmar from neighbouring…
Sparking change through research
Social scientists in Myanmar seeking to understand the factors that influence women’s participation in politics and the economy are finding that,…
A sustained effort to foster evidence-based decision-making in Myanmar
September 24, 2019 Research in Action article from IDRC IDRC Over the course of its near 50-year history, IDRC has collaborated…
Increasing gender equality in an evolving democracy
Researchers on the ground in Myanmar are investigating how women can get more involved in policymaking to ensure their voices are…