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The Women's Empowerment: Data for Gender Equality (WEDGE) project underway

The WEDGE advisory board meeting discussed generating cross-culturally comparable data
The Women's Empowerment: Data for Gender Equality (WEDGE) project underway

The Women's Empowerment: Data for Gender Equality (WEDGE) Team held its advisory board meeting in early September the University of Maryland. This project is being directed by Faculty Associates Feinian Chen and Sonalde Desai, Sociology, with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

The WEDGE team advisory board now has 33 scholars and research members covering fields including economics, demography, sociology, social epidemiology, gender studies, public policy, public health, international development, statistics, data analysis, and more. In addition to the directors, MPRC Associates Philip Cohen, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, Sangeetha Madhavan, and Liana C. Sayer serve as board members for the WEDGE team.

Prof. Janet C. Gornick, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate Center, City University of New York, gave a keynote lecture, "Women, Work and Care: What Can We Learn from Cross-National Comparisons?” WEDGE is a five-year project designed to develop measures of women's economic empowerment that can be easily incorporated into national surveys and to test their reliability and validity.