Mental Health and Unpaid-Care at the Commission on the Status of Women 2025
The International Federation for Family Development (IFFD) played a pivotal role at the 69th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69), engaging in high-level [...]
Transforming Care Systems: UN System Policy Paper
Despite the inherited value of unpaid work to societies, communities and families, it is excluded from economic calculations and ends up perpetuating inequalities. [United Nations, July 2024]. [...]
Building Better Retirement Strategies for Women
Much of the retirement savings advice offered online, and even by financial professionals, is intended for a wide audience. Unfortunately, it often doesn’t take into account the needs that [...]
Joining Forces for Gender Equality — What is Holding us Back?
Women spend more time on unpaid work, face a strong motherhood penalty, encounter barriers to entrepreneurship and fare worse in labour markets overall. They are also under-represented in [...]
2023 Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
In the early morning of 18th March, the Commission on the Status of Women 67 has adopted by consensus a drafted resolution that will be forwarded to the Economic and Social Council. During 15 [...]
Closing the Gender Pay Gap for good: A focus on the motherhood penalty
Women in Work Index shows progress towards gender equality at work across the OECD has been exceedingly slow over the last 10 years, with a persistent gender pay gap of 14%, down only 2.5 [...]
Childcare and Parenting Support for Women’s Empowerment – Side event at the UN Commission for Women
Madeleine Wallin and Caroline Hoglund from Haro and FEFAF, together with Perrine Bruvier from IFFD presented the Civil Society Declaration on the 30th Anniversary of the International Year of the [...]
The pandemic exposed gender inequality: Let’s seize the opportunity to remedy it
We can use this as an opportunity to reimagine a different future, one that values gender equality, women’s participation and women’s leadership. Women must be part of COVID-19 response and [...]
