📋 Tender Overview
Project ID
109842
Total Funding
CAD 318,700.00
IDRC Officer
Anindya Chaudhuri
Project Status
Active
Duration
36 months
Summary
Gendered barriers impede both women’s entry and success in the workforce, which in turn contribute to persistent labour force participation gaps between men and women. Barriers that harm the employment prospects of women can also limit their decision-making power in the home and in society more broadly. For companies, workplace barriers such as gender-based harassment may lead to high female turnover, corporate inefficiencies, and strained or limited cooperation between male and female employees.
This project will develop and test the impact of a workplace gender training intervention in countering gendered barriers for women and in improving company performance. The training curriculum will build on BRAC's existing gender equality and skills development programs and best practices from CARE International and other sources. Through surveys and interactive training sessions, the team will track gender attitudes among managers and employees in 2000 mid-sized manufacturing firms before and after training. The impact of this training intervention on changing worker behaviours, perceptions and firm performance will be compared with a control group.
Led by BRAC University, the study will provide vital information on the relationship between gender attitudes, employee interactions, and productivity and will shed light on the malleability of social norms that act as barriers to women's economic empowerment. The results will inform the development of low-cost interventions seeking to improve workplace gender attitudes, benefiting firms, NGOs like BRAC and government bodies. Working in concert with BRAC, this project aligns with their agenda of promoting gender equality and skills development and contributes to their ongoing efforts to empower women entrepreneurs and promote productivity in SMEs.
This project was awarded a Stage 2 grant through the 2020 Evidence for Innovation open competition.
