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The impact of gender data

14,716 women-headed households were given priority food aid thanks in part to data produced by the Women Count Regional Programme for the Arab States.

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Women from Aldea Campur, in Alta Verapaz, make, market and package their own shampoo, earning extra income for themselves and for their families. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
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Najwa Abu-Zaalan started as a beneficiary and is now a trainer at the UN Women Oasis Centre in Ajloun. Photo: UN Women/Bashar Al-Jabari
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Untapped potential: Foreign-born women entrepreneurs and the gender gap
Photo: UN Women/Piyavit Thongsa-Ard
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Caring for carers: Recognizing the rights and contributions of older women
Photo: Vincent Tremeau / World Bank
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Time-use data in Senegal spur advocacy, policy and programme revisions
Survivors of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake keep warm by a fire in a temporary shelter in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey. The affected region of south-east Turkey and Syria was already severely disrupted by the nearly 12-year conflict in Syria, and ethnic tensions in Turkey. © UNICEF/Ölçer
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Always on the frontline in every crisis
Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic valley, who are part of a UN programme to diversify incomes. ©UN Women/Ryan
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Poverty is not gender-neutral
A Burmese migrant worker with her child in a field in Mae Sot, western Thailand. Photo: UN Women/Piyavit Thongsa-Ard
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More than 2 million moms left the labour force in 2020 according to new global estimates
gender and poverty data
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