EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - TRANSFORMING GENDER NORMS FOR WOMEN’S ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT

for graphic design and typesetting and Emily Subden and Emilie Tant for proof-reading and managing the production Aatif Somji is a Senior Research Officer in the Gender of the report. [...] Gender norms structure access to resources, affect opportunities to develop skills, influence time-use and divisions of labour, and impact people’s ability to act on the opportunities that are available to them. [...] Gender norms influence access to and the use of technologies, such as digital and agricultural technologies, directly – through norms and stereotypes about who is best placed to or competent to use particular technologies – and indirectly, through the ways they contribute to women’s lower purchasing power, mobility, access to information and time. [...] 12 Transforming gender norms for women’s economic rights and empowerment For small-holder farmers, norms related to respectability and modesty, divisions of labour, and beliefs that men are better suited to control, operate, own and care for agricultural technologies impact women’s access to and use of such technologies. [...] For example, initiatives in Rwanda and Tanzania provided gender-specific training to the partners and husbands of women entrepreneurs alongside business skills training, mentoring, and access to credit for the women entrepreneurs themselves.