14 Sept 2026 • Mayra Buvinic as told to Kaitlin Ferguson
“Gender statistics generally have misrepresented women as unproductive and overly dependent on men’s wages, rather than as individual economic agents.” This piece explores the importance of gender disaggregated data and its potential to generate positive change.
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