Analyze women’s pathways to participation across multiple levels of governance: national parliament, political parties, and social movements;state/division parliaments, government offices; anddistrict,…
This project will support training and mentoring for emerging professionals, mostly women, who have worked in government and/or non-governmental organizations, are…
October 13, 2020 Research in Action story from IDRC Support for policy-relevant research helps to inform electoral debate in Myanmar. CLAIRE…
In 2020, the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap continues to find the largest gender disparity is—once again—the Political Empowerment gap. While countries across the board are making efforts to reduce the gap, Myanmar is behind all countries in ASEAN. Despite having successful and highly visible women across all sectors of the economy from the garment industry to education. Few Myanmar women are present in politics.
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Myanmar is home to several minority ethnic groups seeking political, economic, cultural, and social recognition. In these pursuits, conflict has erupted and sustained for decades–as one of the world’s longest–manifesting in a variety of forms. Within these conflicts, the gendered impacts are multi-faceted and disproportionately tolling upon women and girls. As Myanmar heads to the polls again this year, violence could again re-emerge, keeping in mind that “Gender inequities exacerbate experiences of conflict, and responses that do not incorporate gender analysis exacerbate inequities”.
(more…)Social scientists in Myanmar seeking to understand the factors that influence women’s participation in politics and the economy are finding that,…
September 24, 2019 Research in Action article from IDRC IDRC Over the course of its near 50-year history, IDRC has collaborated…
Researchers on the ground in Myanmar are investigating how women can get more involved in policymaking to ensure their voices are…