Deputy Director, Women's Economic Empowerment @gatesfoundation, leading gender data and evidence; Fellow @oxmartinschool @Uniofoxford. Tweets are my own.
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Don’t miss our #SkollWF side event with @WorldBank! Mahreen Khan (Future of Development) joins a panel on data-driven solutions to boost jobs for women & youth & tackle poverty in the Global South.
Register: eventbrite.com/e/scaling-eco…
ALT Poster for a Skoll Forum side event titled “Scaling Economic Inclusion Programs.” Organised by the Partnership for Economic Inclusion, The World Bank and Oxford Martin School. The panel includes Victoria Strokova, Winnie Auma, Diva Dhar, Mahreen Khan and Juan Navarrete. The event is on April 3, 2025, from 2:00–4:00 PM at Keble College, HB Allen Centre Lecture Theatre, Oxford. The poster includes logos of the organizing institutions.
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Curious about ‘what works, how, and why’ when it comes to social protection and gender equality?
Join us on 16 July to learn more about the top findings from the Gender Responsive and Age Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP) Research Programme: uni.cf/4cRh83V
ALT A visual combination of a photo of a child playing happily with a woman and the following text in a box: "16 July. Webinar, 8:30 am EST, 1:30pm GMT, 2:30 pm CET. Towards gender-responsive social protection. Join us for the unveiling of the Gender Responsive and Age Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP) Research Programme on 'what works, how and why' social protection contributes to gender equality through case studies from Angola, Burkina Faso, the DRC, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico, Tanzania, Uruguay, and Vietnam," as well as the logos of UK Aid Direct and UNICEF.
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Around 700 million people globally live on less than $2 per day.
So, how can @BRACworld's Ultra-Poor Graduation approach - ‘teaching a person to fish’ rather than ‘handing them the fish' - address this issue?
Read more: i.mtr.cool/keilbuydvq
#Econtwitter Gates Foundation job alert! Are you passionate about research on gender equality and digital connectivity? Come work with @jamiemzimmerman, me and an awesome team, on gender * digital research and measurement. RT and share widely! shorturl.at/9Fiv8
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Will you be at #SkollWF? Don’t miss a critical discussion on April 11 on the adoption & scaling of poverty graduation featuring our CEO @DianneCalvi and leaders from @WorldBank, @gatesfoundation, @BRACworld, & @oxmartinschool.
Reserve your spot today: bit.ly/3x9hp2p
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(1/7) The third issue of GenderTalk from @ncaer's Gender Hub discusses women's agency in marriage choice. Articles from @B_ban20, Sarah Lamb, Santhya Kg, @diva_dhar, @zylinsoc, & conversation wth @Letstransform. ndic.ncaer.org/publication/g…
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It was a privilege to work with other funders from across #philanthropy to articulate the importance of cross-sector collaboration to advance access to high quality, affordable #childcare. impact.economist.com/new-glo…
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💰Banks, moneylenders, self-help groups, friends, employers, or local shops: Where do Indian households borrow money from?
In our latest CEDA-@_CMIE Bulletin we sift through @_cphs data to answer that.
Here's what we found:
ceda.ashoka.edu.in/where-do-…
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Introducing GenderTalk from @ncaer's Gender Data Hub, with the aim to bridge gap between research & practice. The 1st issue is on economics of women’s safety in public spaces. Articles from @pallavi_econ, @g_borker, @tanikac & conversation w/ @viswanathkv.
bit.ly/3lxcSkL – at New Delhi, India
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Sign up folks! @kanmahajan @asanishasharma @sabya_economist @saachibhalla @SonaldeDesai @diva_dhar @BMGFIndia @YaminiYaminina @KukrejaSharma @PKhanghta @namitabhandare @Rukmini @ieuditmisra @mahambare_vidya @vidhyasrajan @DhanarajSowmya @IAFFE @N_Kabeer @Karan_Singhs – at New Delhi, India
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@gatesfoundation Gender Equality division and some of our awesome partners are hiring for diverse roles for groundbreaking work on digital, data, research for women's empowerment. I'm going to stop sharing over email and tweet these now on! See 🧵👇 share further #econtwitter
Deputy Director, National Data Innovation Center at @ncaer working with the phenomenal @SonaldeDesai on innovations in data collection and analysis, including India's only longitudinal national India Human Development Survey @ihdscorner rb.gy/bnsxl0
One more! Economist at South Asia Regional Gender Innovation Lab (SARGIL) @WorldBank @WBG_Gender @WorldBankSAsia working with the incredible Isis Gaddis on impact evaluations and research to policy on gender. Apply here with reqid req20837 tinyurl.com/zka5bseb
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In this paper in JDE, we provide new evidence on the impact of teachers' stereotypical attitudes on students' cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… (1/4)
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Mind the Gap, a look at the week's gender news: male passengers+court rulings+around the world+field notes @diva_dhar @kanmahajan @airindiain
Are Indian men the worst passengers? A recent spate of incidents tells us something is seriously amiss.
Plus the week’s gender highlights in #MindtheGap: @namitabhandare
Read hindustantimes.com/ht-newsle…
Subscribe to HT Mind The Gap on hindustantimes.com/subscribe…
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New research from @kanmahajan and co-authors: We know that the gendered division of labor within marriage hurts women’s allocation of time to market work, but how do social norms influence women’s work choices pre-marriage? isid.ac.in/~epu/acegd2022/pa…
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Just in time for season 2 of #IndianMatchmaking, @diva_dhar summarised her study on the marriage market penalty for women who choose to work after marriage, and the role that gender norms play in female labour force participation rates in India
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ideasforindia.in/topics/soci…
#Econtwitter Gates Foundation job alert! Are you passionate about gender, public policy, economics (especially development and macro)? Our awesome Dev Policy & Finance Team led by @KalpanaKochhar is hiring in DC/London. RT and share widely, friends! gatesfoundation.wd1.myworkda…