We are pleased to announce new funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for a research and policy programme on the dynamics of gender inequality among young people as they enter adulthood. The aim is to deepen understanding of the factors that bring about positive change in young people’s lives by promoting gender justice as a key means of addressing child poverty.
The Gender, Poverty and Transitions to Adulthood research programme will trace gender development and differences from early childhood through transitions to adulthood, as young adults navigate work, care responsibilities, education, marriage and parenthood.
The research is organised along three main topics:
- Changing aspirations, opportunities and constraints on education and mobility: This theme explores how economic and social change is affecting gender relations, and girls’ and women’s aspirations, roles and agency within their households, schools, communities, and work, and the mobility and specific trajectories of young women and men since we began following their lives in 2002.
- Household dynamics, paid and unpaid work and the care economy: This theme focuses on intra-household decision-making around different investments in girls and boys, their roles in paid and unpaid work within and outside the family, and their caregiving responsibilities. Of particular interest is the way gender (and generation) influences the way families negotiate trade-offs in young people’s time-use, particularly the way economic opportunities in the wider community interact with other decisions made around young women’s work and care responsibilities.
- Marriage, parenthood and intimate relationships: This theme addresses the dynamic processes involved in young people’s role transitions as they enter into marriage and parenthood. It links their earlier circumstances in childhood with decisions about marriage and fertility, investigating the relationship between the social and economic circumstances of households, especially poverty and unanticipated economic shocks, as well as the availability of education, employment opportunities and personal assets (including land, dowry/bride-wealth, etc.). A particular focus will be in young women’s roles in decision-making and constraints around marriage and child-bearing, and how these compare to the experiences of young men.
A core element of this programme is to influence the efforts of government and non-governmental actors working in different policy arenas related to gender, adolescence and youth poverty. We aim to achieve results in relation to:
- Deepening understanding of the factors and structural constraints that limit the achievement of gender equality , especially in the transition to adulthood.
- Networking and building alliances with intermediaries, including advocacy organisations, who can effectively use research evidence to promote gender justice in childhood and beyond.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation funds the ‘Gender, Poverty and Transitions to Adulthood’ study from 2014 to 2016 under its Global Development and Population Programme.
We are pleased to announce new funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for a research and policy programme on the dynamics of gender inequality among young people as they enter adulthood. The aim is to deepen understanding of the factors that bring about positive change in young people’s lives by promoting gender justice as a key means of addressing child poverty.
The Gender, Poverty and Transitions to Adulthood research programme will trace gender development and differences from early childhood through transitions to adulthood, as young adults navigate work, care responsibilities, education, marriage and parenthood.
The research is organised along three main topics:
- Changing aspirations, opportunities and constraints on education and mobility: This theme explores how economic and social change is affecting gender relations, and girls’ and women’s aspirations, roles and agency within their households, schools, communities, and work, and the mobility and specific trajectories of young women and men since we began following their lives in 2002.
- Household dynamics, paid and unpaid work and the care economy: This theme focuses on intra-household decision-making around different investments in girls and boys, their roles in paid and unpaid work within and outside the family, and their caregiving responsibilities. Of particular interest is the way gender (and generation) influences the way families negotiate trade-offs in young people’s time-use, particularly the way economic opportunities in the wider community interact with other decisions made around young women’s work and care responsibilities.
- Marriage, parenthood and intimate relationships: This theme addresses the dynamic processes involved in young people’s role transitions as they enter into marriage and parenthood. It links their earlier circumstances in childhood with decisions about marriage and fertility, investigating the relationship between the social and economic circumstances of households, especially poverty and unanticipated economic shocks, as well as the availability of education, employment opportunities and personal assets (including land, dowry/bride-wealth, etc.). A particular focus will be in young women’s roles in decision-making and constraints around marriage and child-bearing, and how these compare to the experiences of young men.
A core element of this programme is to influence the efforts of government and non-governmental actors working in different policy arenas related to gender, adolescence and youth poverty. We aim to achieve results in relation to:
- Deepening understanding of the factors and structural constraints that limit the achievement of gender equality , especially in the transition to adulthood.
- Networking and building alliances with intermediaries, including advocacy organisations, who can effectively use research evidence to promote gender justice in childhood and beyond.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation funds the ‘Gender, Poverty and Transitions to Adulthood’ study from 2014 to 2016 under its Global Development and Population Programme.