women and trade
Resources, Events & Multimedia
Research papers
Reports and publications
- Women and Trade: the role of trade in promoting gender equality (2020)
- World Trade Report 2020
- Emerging Lessons from Aid for Trade in Support of Women’s Economic Empowerment in Aid for Trade at a Glance 2019: Economic Diversification and Empowerment
- Trade and Women — opportunities for women in the framework of the World Trade Organization (2019) (restricted access)
- Gender Aware Trade Policy (2017)
- Aid for Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment - It's an Easy Win and it Works!
- Trade Finance and SMEs: Bridging the Gaps in Provision (2016)
- Women, Trade and Poverty (in Role of Trade in Ending Poverty) (2016)
Policy tools
Conferences, workshops and webinars
Youth Trade Summit on Gender – 13-14 November 2023
Promoting the next generation of experts
- Curtain raiser: Launch of the Research Study ‘Investigating the Role of Youth in Gender Equitable and Inclusive Trade’
- Official Opening: Including Youth Perspectives to Make Trade Policy Work for Women
- Engendering DTISs – Enhanced Integrated Framework
- Closing: Youth Pleading for Gender Equality in Trade
World Trade Congress on Gender — 5-7 December 2022
“Gender Equality for Sustainable Trade and Recovery”
- High level official opening: Building recovery through inclusive trade
- Plenary session 1: Women in crisis, from diagnostics to solutions
- Research session 1: Women entrepreneurs at the core of Recovery
- Research session 2: Does trade liberalization have gender equality's back?
- Research session 3: Trade agreements: Bridging regional perspectives and grasping female traders insights
- Research session 4: COVID-19: Looking beyond the diagnostic, finding solutions
- Research session 5: Crafting gender-responsive trade policies and agreements
- Research session 6: Facilitating trade for women
- Research session 7: Social issues, keys to making trade work for women
- Research session 8: Gender gaps in trade: does digitalization hold solutions?
- Outcome plenary session and closing: What vision, strategy and focus for 2023 and beyond?
WTO Gender Research Hub Think Up! #1 – 9 March 2022
“Financing change: trade finance at women's entrepreneurs' rescue”
WTO Gender Research Hub Think Up! #2 – 27 July 2022
“Using data to make trade work for women”
WTO Gender Research Hub Think Up! #3 – 27 September 2022
“Gender equality in the DNA of the WTO?”
Aid for Trade Global Review 2022 – Session 36 – 28 July 2022
“What are the commitments for gender equality in regional trade agreements: Launch of the WTO database on gender provisions in regional trade agreements”
Aid for Trade Global Review 2022 – Session 52 – 29 July 2022
“Impact assessment of gender provisions in FTAs: An empirical look at the African experience”
ITAM- Mexico, WTO
