Women in Work Sri Lanka Employment

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To enhanced women’s participation in the private sector labor force by the Women's Employment Project is working with large companies to demonstrate the business case for investing in women as employees and to improve their ability to recruit, retain, and promote women and men equally. Priority sectors include Banking, Finance & Insurance, Garments and Apparel, Tourism, and Information and Communications Technology. The work consists of research to understand key constraints women face in accessing waged employment, creating space to share experience, developing targeted solutions to respond to those constraints, delivering direct advisory support to Sri Lankan businesses to make the most of their female talent, and addressing regulatory and policy constraints to women’s full participation in the workforce.