Gender and Economic Agency Initiative
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J-PAL’s Gender and Economic Agency (GEA) Initiative funds randomized evaluations of strategies to enhance women’s economic agency.
GEA aims to build a strong body of evidence on policies and programs to promote women’s work and enhance women’s economic agency in East Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central America. GEA works to develop policy-relevant insights from this research to drive programming, strategies, and policymaking on women’s work in both formal and informal employment. In a unique opportunity, GEA will broaden its focus to explore the causal relationship between women's economic empowerment and family planning and will have dedicated funding for this topic in 2025.
GEA prioritizes developing research on five themes:
- Workplace arrangements and labor policies to promote formal and informal employment for women
- Enhancing women’s labor potential and work readiness (including self-employment)
- Addressing restrictive gender norms and attitudes related to women’s work
- Understanding how family planning impacts women's economic empowerment
- Understanding how women's economic empowerment impacts family planning and women's and children's health outcomes
Key Facts
Sectors:
Office:
J-PAL Global
Co-Chairs:
Status:
- Research RFP: Closed
Eligibility:
Open to J-PAL affiliates, J-PAL postdocs, and J-PAL invited researchers
Contact:
[email protected]
Funders
Featured Content
Review Paper
File: Initiative publication
Gender and Economic Agency Initiative (GEA): An overview of research opportunities
Projects
Career and leadership skill-building for Muslim women in India
Location:
India
Impact of Education of the X&Y Chromosomes on Women’s Agency and Experience of Domestic Violence
Location:
Ahmedabad, India